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1. These amendments are included in Decree Law no. 118, 1959,
Decree Law no. 82, 1983, Decree Law no. 5, 1985, and Decree Law no.
132, 1992.
Back2. The Council for the Execution of Development Projects, the
Council for the Execution of Major Projects for the City of Beirut and
the Lebanese University.
Back 3. Interview with Dr. Joseph Fadil, Counsellor in the Court of
Accounts, April 18, 1995.
Back 4. Interview with the President of the Court of Accounts, An
Nahar Daily, October 20, 1994.
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Daily, April 13, 1995.
Back 6. Annual Report of the President of the
Civil Service Council for 1994, April 15, 1995, Appendix No. 1, p.
114.
Back 7. Annual Report of the Central Inspection for the year 1993,
Official Gazette, Special Annex No. 2, July 28, 1994, p. 38.
Back 8. Annual Report of Central Inspection, 1973-1974, p. 3.
Back 9. Annual Report of Central Inspection, Ibid. p. 4.
Back 10. Interview with Mr. Abbas Farhat, former Acting President of
Central Inspection and former Director General of the Ministry of
Labor and Social Affairs.
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Back 12. Kenneth Kofmehl, Professional Staff of Congress, Purdue
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Back 13. Hassan Chalak, "Administrative Reform in Lebanon", Unpublished
Ph.D. Dissertation, Beirut, Lebanese University, 1989, p. 341.
Back 14. Annual Report of the General Disciplinary Council for the year
1993, pp. 32-35.
Back 15. Ibid., p. 2 1.
Back 16. John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government,
Chicago, Regenery, 1962, p. 111.
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Back 19. The Chamber of Deputies can be dissolved if, in the absence of
force majeure, it fails to meet throughout a regular session or two
consecutive special sessions, the duration of each of which, is not
less than one month, or in case it returns the budget with the
intention of paralyzing the government or in cast it insists on its
proposals for constitutional amendments that were refused by the
Cabinet (articles 65 and 77 of the new constitution).
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Back 21. As-Safir Daily, October 18, 1995.
Back 22. Article 16 of the Lebanese Constitution.
Back 23. An-Nahar Daily, October 19, 1994.
Back 24. Emile Khoury, An-Nahr Daily, September 30, 1994.
Back 25. As-Safir Daily, October 18, 1995.
Back 26. Ibid.
Back 27. As-Safir Daily, January 1, 1996.
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Philosophical Considerations" in Legislative Staffing in Comparative
Perspective, Eds. James J. Heaphy and Alan Balutis, New York,
Halstead, 1976, pp. 7-8.
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