VOL. XXXIV

NO. 9

3-DECEMBER-1990

The Political Scene

Vigorous US diplomacy has managed to swing 12 of the 15 votes in the UNSecurity Council behind a resolution authorizing the use of force if Iraq doesnot withdraw from Kuwait by 15 January, but even as the Americans scored asuccess in maintaining international solidarity, there were signs that theprospect of a war in the Gulf in the near future was beginning to erode thedomestic consensus in the US itself. In the wheeling and dealing at the UN,...