VOL. XXXII

NO. 21

27-FEBRUARY-1989

The Middle East Situation

The Soviet Union has arrived back on the Middle East scene with a bang asForeign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze unveiled a plan to convene aninternational peace conference within a year at the beginning of a ten-day tourof the region. In Damascus, the Soviet Foreign Minister described Arab unity asan indispensible requirement for peacemaking and in thinly-veiled terms urgedthe Syrians to settle their differences with Egypt and the PLO,...