VOL. XXXI
NO. 32
16-MAY-1988
The Middle East Situation
An otherwise uneventful week in the Middle East, at least by recentstandards, was punctuated by fierce fighting in south Beirut between the Shi'amilitia groups Amal and Hizbollah which eventually required intervention bytheir respective mentors, Syria and Iran, before a precarious calm was restored.US Secretary of State George Shultz is to return to the region on 3 June forfive days of talks on the current US peace initiative, but there are...
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