12 NOVEMBER 1983, page 12

Could Israel Save Arafat?

David Lay W hen PLO dissidents raised a rebel banner in the Beka's Valley of eastern Lebanon, who could have predicted that within six months, rival Palestinian forces would for......

Remembering Monroe

Christopher Hitchens Washington I n 1895 Richard Olney, who was Secretary of State to President Grover Cleveland, delivered himself of the following blunt observation: 'The......