141 - MERIP

July/August 1986

Middle East Report 141 covers the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraqi Kurdistan during the 1980s.


From the Editors (July/August 1986)	The Editors
Articles
Moscow’s Kabul Campaign	Jonathan Steele
Bull About Kabul	Jonathan Steele
Changes at the Top	Jonathan Steele
The Kurds Between Iran and Iraq	Martin Van Bruinessen
Major Kurdish Organizations in Iran	Martin Van Bruinessen
Major Kurdish Organizations in Iraq	Martin Van Bruinessen
Pakistan and the Central Command	Jamal Rashid
Special Reports
US Raid Haunts Libya
The Last Days of ‘Ali Nasir	Jean Gueyras
Reviews
Authoritarian States in the Third World	Iftikhar Ahmad
Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs	Fred Halliday
Turner, Capitalism and Class in the Middle East	Danny Reachard
Owen, Migrant Workers in the Gulf	James Paul
Oil Politics in the Arab World	Michael Renner
Vercellin, Crime de Silence	Fred Halliday
Hussain, Political Perspectives on the Muslim World	Fred H. Lawson
Black, Garrison Guatemala	Martha Wenger
Helms, Iraq: Eastern Flank of the Arab World	Muhammad Ja'far