VOL. XXXIV

NO. 1

8-OCTOBER-1990

The Political Scene

US President George Bush chose to accentuate the positive in his speech tothe UN, intimating for the first time that an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait might(somehow) pave the way for a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, andBritish Foreign Secretary said much the same but in somewhat greater detail. TheFrench, meanwhile, who last week came up with an apparently independent approachto the Gulf crisis at the UN, have been embarrassed by an...