VOL. XXXII

NO. 5

7-NOVEMBER-1988

The Middle East Situation

Parliamentary elections in Israel have strengthened the hand of theright-wing parties without producing any clear-cut mandate for change eitherway, and the possibility that Likud may now be able to form a governmentwithout Labor's assistance by an alliance with the parties of the religiousright is generally seen as a blow to the prospects for a negotiated settlementof the Arab-Israeli conflict. In Algeria, President Chadli Benjedid has...