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**** A standard review of the region, recommended by BCL3. This volume, the last of a decade and the last of the era of massive Soviet influence, covers oil (of course), the Rushdie affair, the end of open Iran-Iraq hostilities, Egypt's return to the Arab League--a rather stately, ordered prelude to the cataclysms of 1990 and 1991. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR