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from a Byblos constituency in 1953; except for a one-year break (1964–1965, when he lost his seat but subsequently recovered it in a by-election), he remained in parliament until 1992, when he decided to boycott an
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proposal floated in 1964 and again in 1968, with a view to cutting off Israel's water supply. He warned that it would make
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