VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 18

30 JANUARY 1995

The Political Scene

A lethal suicide bomb attack inside Israel by the fundamentalist groupIslamic Jihad has brought further calls for the PLO to crack down on its Islamicopponents and the "separation" of the occupied Palestinians fromIsrael. As if that were not enough of a blow to the peace process, the IsraeliGovernment has approved the expansion of settlements around Jerusalem. As theNon-Proliferation Treaty comes up for renewal, the Americans (and Israelis)...