VOL. XXXII

NO. 18

6-FEBRUARY-1989

The Middle East Situation

Following visits to Tehran and BaBhdad by UN special envoy Jan Eliasson, Iranand Iraq have agreed to form a point military commission to oversee thecease-fire and their foreign ministers may meet at the UN in New York, althoughthe two sides seem as far apart as ever on the issues in their peacenegotiations. In Israel, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has put forward a plan"along the lines of Camp David" which appears designed to forestall...