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Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans—
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Current Affairs

3 Jordan: U.S.'s Last Chance?—Has the time finally come when the U.S. will start paying a price for continuing to take Jordan for granted? Phebe Marr was in Amman recently talking to Jordanian officials, who seemed to be saying, "yes."

4 Challenging Gifts to Israel—As we reported to our readers last January, the tax-exempt status of six Jewish American organizations is being challenged in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. We thought it was due time for a status report.

5 Leadership Changes on Hill—David Obey, Clarence Long's replacement as chairman of the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee, will ask many more questions about how U.S. aid money is being spent in the Mideast. Or so his record would seem to indicate.

6 Lobby Activities—What effect will the new Congress and a second-term Reagan Administration have on U.S. policy in the Middle East? Arab American and Jewish American groups have been offering their interpretations.

8 More U.S. Exports to Iraq?—Behind the news of the political fence mending now taking place between the U.S. and Iraq is another story of a commercial nature. And it, too, is welcome news.

Regular Features

2 Editorial—Sometimes the U.S. betrays its Arab friends and later wonders why leaders like King Hussein won't heed U.S. advice. And sometimes individual U.S. policymakers betray their own government by trying to serve two masters at the same time. Two editorials—both on betrayal.

7 Personality—He's now advising the Arab League Mission in Washington, but many Americans and Europeans know the name of Nizar Jwaideh from his nearly three decades of work as a respected and hardworking journalist.

8 Facts For Your Files—A Chronology of U.S.-Middle East Relations

10 Book Review—When you finish reading about the fascinating, albeit unsettling, events six years ago which led Michael Saba on a quest to expose "dual loyalists" in the U.S. government, you will only have read the first part of his new book, The Armageddon Network. What follows is an account of what these same people are doing today inside the Administration.