VOL. XXXIV

NO.16

21-JANUARY-1991

The Political Scene

The last act in the tragedy in the Gulf has now begun. With the air assaultlaunched against Iraq on 17 January by the multinational forces mustered inSaudi Arabia and elsewhere, the confrontation over the invasion of Kuwait hasreached a violent, definitive, and seemingly inevitable denouement. The Iraqishave attempted to offset the military superiority of the US-led forces byundermining the coalition politically and have fired missiles at...