—Voices from the Sensible Center—

Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans—
Interpreting North America for the Middle East

Inside This Issue

1 Shadows—Claudia Wright

2 Editorial—Once upon a time there really was a moderate in charge in Tehran, Andrew I. Killgore points out, so the US pulled the carpet out from under him in 1953.

3 Policy—Don't be misled by similarities in the decisions to commit US Marines to Beirut and US naval units to the Persian Gulf, Dick Curtiss warns. The 1982 decison was because the US had no Mideast policy. The 1987 decision may be the beginning of one.

5 Special Report—Former Congressman Paul Findley contrast the aftermaths of Iraq's May 17, 1987 attack on the USS Stark with Israel's June 8, 1967 attack on the USS Liberty.

8 Special Report—George Shultz's incredible transformation from concerned defender of Palestinian rights to cheerleader for Israeli extremism is chronicled by Lynn Teo Simarski.

10 Update on Congress—Whenever Lt. Col. Oliver North tried to describe Israel's role in originating and sustaining the sale of arms to Iran, or in diverting some profits to the contras, Dennis Wamsted notes, Congressional investigators discovered pressing business elsewhere.

11 From the Israeli Press—Yael Lotan

11 Trade and Finance—John T. Haldane shows how Kuwait arrived on the world's center stage, and why it will stay there for a while.

12 Seeing the Light—Roberta Coles

13 Other People's Mail—Mail sent or received by others discusses reflagging and terrorism and the PLO even better than we can.

14 Lobbies and Activists

15 Religion and the Middle East

20 Media—Richard Curtiss

20 Personality (Georgiana Stevens)

21 Book Review (The Arabs)

23 Facts For Your Files: A Chronology of U.S.-Middle East Relations

24 TIE Exchange

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