VOL. XXXI

NOS. 11/12

21/28-DECEMBER-1987

The Middle East Situation

1987: The Year of the Gulf

In this final issue of the year, we pause again to look back over the eventsof 1987, trying with the benefits of hindsight to discern what enduring trendsmay have emerged and what their implications may be for the coming year. 1987has been dominated by the Gulf conflict, which for the first time really brokeout of the confines of an Iraq-Iran struggle to involve the Arab states of theGulf and the...