—Voices from the Sensible Center—

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

Inside This Issue

3 Afghanistan: Return, Repatriation, and Reconstruction—Louis Dupree

5 An Interview With Yasser Arafat—Andrew I. Killgore

6 An Interview With Shulamit Aloni—William N. Dale

8 The Other Side of the Coin: The US Media and the PLO—Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal

10 Should the US Make Israel Make Peace?—Two Views: George Thompson and Allan C. Brownfeld

11 Should the US Make Israel Make Peace?—Two Views: Jerome M. Segal and Sol Schindler

12 Should the US Make Israel Make Peace?—Two Views: Abdul Salam Y. Massarueh and Muhammad Hallaj

13 Jerusalem Journal: Obstacles to Peace—Frank Collins

14 A Time for Hope in South Asia—Edward Thomas Pinch

15 Will the State Department Remain Israeli-Occupied Territory?—Richard H. Curtiss

16 Rx for Mideast Terrorism: Solve the Problems, Isolate the Flake—Richard H. Curtiss

19 Public Opinion: What Palestinian Americans Really Think—Fouad Moughrabi

20 Trade and Finance—John T. Haldane

21 Letters to the Editors

22 Facts for Your Files: A Chronology of US-Mideast Relations

30 Book Reviews:Government and Society in Rural Palestine 1920-1948

31 Book Reviews:The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

30 Seeing the Light: If Terrorists Ran all the Governments—Marianne Snowden

32 Other People’s Mail

35 Issues in the News

36 Congress: Arms Sale Imbroglio—Dennis J. Wamsted

37 Personality: Awadh bin Bader bin Murie Al-Shanfari, Oman's Ambassador to the US—Andrew I. Killgore

39 Arabs and Islam: Campaign Against AIPAC, DataBase Project on Human Rights—Catherine M. Willford

40 Massachusetts Armenians in Mourning—Mary Barrett

41 Religion and the Middle East—Rev. L. Humphrey Walz

49 Publisher's Page: Help Save the Universe

50 Tie: Training, Information & Education Exchange

51 Pacific Perspectives—Pat McDonnell Twair