VOL. XXXIII

NO. 45

13-AUGUST-1990

Iraq: The International Stranglehold Tightens

As the international economic and military stranglehold on Iraq intensified,the crisis provoked by Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait appeared to beapproaching its point of maximum danger as MEES went to press on Friday evening(10 August). Despite the news late that evening that a majority of Arab states,including the six GCC members, Egypt, Syria and Morocco, had agreed at thesummit meeting in Cairo to dispatch...