VOL. XXXII

NO. 52

3-OCTOBER-1988

The Middle East Situation

A precarious calm has settled on Beirut as the rival cabinets of Gen. MichelAoun and Dr. Salih al-Huss vie for legitimacy while their backers seek apolitical solution to the crisis created by last week's failure to elect a successor to ex-President Amin Gemayel. The LebaneseChristians' rejection of thecandidate agreed on by Syria and the US is only the latest in a series ofsetbacks Damascus has suffered since the beginning of the year,...