The Great Powers and the Middle East March/April 1988 March/April 1988Middle East Report 151 looks at the place of the region in US and Soviet global strategies in the 1980s. Table of Contents Starter From the Editors (March/April 1988) The Editors Articles The Great Powers and the Middle East Fred Halliday Articles North-South vs. East-West Michael Klare Articles The Middle East and Soviet Military Strategy Michael McGwire Articles Moscow's Crisis Management Fred Halliday Articles Soviet Perceptions of Iraq Roderic Pitty Articles Reagan's Iran Eric Hooglund Articles Nuclear Summits and the Middle East Mohamed Sid-Ahmed Special Reports Italy to the Gulf—and Back Diane Johnstone Special Reports Iraq's Seventh Year Isam al-Khafaji Special Reports A Split in the Iraqi Communist Party? Isam al-Khafaji Reviews Cover-up and Blowback Jonathan Marshall Reviews Sivan, Radical Islam; Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt Michael Gilsenan Reviews Rubenberg, Israel and the American National Interest Edward Danforth Reviews Adams, The Financing of Terror Rex Brynen Reviews Editor's Bookshelf (Author not identified)