VOL. XXXNO. 510-NOVEMBER-1986

The Middle East Situation

The past week has been dominated by a series of devastating revelations andmuch speculation about secret US contacts with Iran, involving arms and spareparts deliveries to Tehran in exchange for Iran using its influence to help freeUS hostages in Lebanon. It is clearly a case of both countries or factionswithin their apparatus engaging in actions diametrically opposed to theirofficial state policies. Now that the gaffe has been blown, the...