VOL. XXXII

NO. 3

24-OCTOBER-1988

The Middle East Situation

The ramshackle institutional structure of the Lebanese state disintegratedfurther when parliament failed through lack of a quorum to elect a successor toits present speaker, whose term of office ended on 18 October. Lebanon's twocabinets promptly opted for different candidates as speakers pro tem, butdespite this obvious step towards partition little headway appears to have beenmade by the parties directly involved towards a compromise on...