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Lebanon
Index
On January 22, 1981, a presidential decree was promulgated to
settle a long-standing dispute over the Deuxième Bureau, which had
been under the exclusive control of the commander in chief and
which Muslim politicians had sought to place under the authority of
the Military Council. The law stipulated that the Deuxième Bureau
was answerable directly to the commander in chief but would provide
the chief of staff with all information available to it. Because
the chief of staff is traditionally a Druze, this compromise
allowed other communities to share in some prerogatives formerly
reserved for the Christian community alone.
Data as of December 1987
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