VOL. XXXIV

NO. 7

19-NOVEMBER-1990

The Political Scene

Phoenix-like, the possibility of an Arab solution to the Gulf crisis roseunexpectedly from the ashes of the Cairo summit at the bidding of King Hassan ofMorocco, giving fresh impetus to efforts to reverse the Iraqi invasion of Kuwaitpolitically. Although no-one was saying so publicly, it looked very much as ifFrance and Russia were behind the revival of what everyone else had taken to bea corpse, and the Soviets even went as far as to say out...