VOL. XXXIV

NO. 27

8-APRIL-1991

The Political Scene

The UN has approved virtually unchanged the punitive terms proposed by the USfor a formal end to the Gulf war, and now that they have been endorsed by thefive permanent members of the Security Council, including China, the Iraqishave very little room for maneuver. Iraqi President Saddam Husain, who, with thecollapse of the Kurdish revolt in the north appears to have regained control ofthe country, will now have to decide whether to accept the...