VOL. XXXNO. 617-NOVEMBER-1986

The Middle East Situation

The "McFarlane Affair" has rumbled on for a full week of furtherrevelations and speculation, but has clearly not yet run its full course. Bothin Iran and in the US, prevailing orthodoxies have been vigorously restated asthe domestic repercussions of exposure were felt. How much room this may leavefor further, perhaps more overt, development of US-Iranian relations, is by nomeans clear at this stage. The Arab world has been largely at a...