VOL. XXXII

NO. 52

2-OCTOBER-1989

The Middle East Situation

Lebanon's General Michel Aoun has accepted something, but with the passage oftime it bears less and less resemblance to the Arab League peace plan.Nonetheless, the guns have fallen silent in Beirut and the Lebanese parliamentis to meet in Saudi Arabia, supposedly to discuss the political reforms whichthe Arab League would like to see embodied in the "national reconciliationcharter." Gen. Aoun, however, wants to talk about a Syrian...