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TELECO ® 1.15A This product qualifies for the "BUY AMERICAN ACT" made in Israel 1 Contemporary accessories for over 34 years 544.1711 777-7999 Elect MARILYN 22961 Woodward, Ferndale, MI KELLY Michigan Court of Appeals "Superbly qualified . . .tough minded . . . will be an excellent jurist" ENDORSED BY • Detroit Free Press • Detroit News • Oakland Press Highest Rating by Civic Searchlight: "Preferred and Well Qualified" Elect Nina Dodgb Abrams Joanna Abramson Gerald B. Alt Hon. Richard H. Austin C. Leslie Banas Arda Barenholtz Hon. Frederick D. Balkwill Patricia S. Barone Jeanne Vallez Barron Michael W. Bartnik Elizabeth Berman Hon. Maxine Berman Louise M. Bittker J.D. Ronald M. Bookholder Susan M. Borovich Kathleen Corkin Boyle Hon. W. Perry Bullard Hon. Daniel A. Burress Sue Ann Canvasser Hon. Raymond A. Charron Carole L. Chiamp Robert M. Chimovitz Hon. David L. Clabuesch Beverly Clark James Clarkson Evelyn Cogan Ina C. Cohen Jared B. Cohen Deborah Smulyan Cohn Gary A. 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Weingarden Susan Winshall Rosemary Kozielski Wolock Sandra Yelensky Gretz Zalman Martin Zalman Tina A. Zipser Etta B. Zivian KE'LLy MARILYN Michigan Court of Appeals • 2nd District Paid for by the Committee to Elect Marilyn Jean Kelly to the Michigan State Court of Appeals, 30100 Telegraph Rd., Suite . 221, Birmingham, MI 48010 22 FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1988 New Threat To Israel HELEN DAVIS Israel Correspondent T he universal expres- sions of relief by the international com- munity over Iran's dramatic decision to accept a ceasefire in its 8-year-old Gulf War with Iraq has been tempered, not only by violations of the not-yet-confirmed peace agreement, but by the cautious tone of senior Middle East observers in Israel. Many obstacles, they say, litter the path leading to the implementation of UN Secur- ity Council resolution 598, which calls for a ceasefire. And many more obstacles re- main before the two sides reach a peace agreement. Thnsions between Iran and Iraq are still running high, as evidenced by air strikes by both sides last week, and the fragile situation could easily disintegrate into fresh hostilities. Nevertheless, Ayatollah Khomeini has personally endorsed the peace agree- ment demanded by the UN Security Council, and there is a broad consensus that — for the moment, at least — Iran is serious about a ceasefire. Over the past three months, Iran has suffered a series of major reversals on the bat- tlefield. It has lost almost all its territorial gains in Iraq, experienced a critical shor- tage of spare parts for its war machine, and has come to the conclusion that no quick vic- tory was in sight. Iran's need for a halt in the hostilities, say the observers, was heightened by a deepen- ing financial crisis and massive civilian dislocation caused by the Iraqi missile at- tacks on its cities (More than a million Iranians fled their homes after just one attack on March 21.). Perhaps most compelling of all, however, was the failure of Iran's leaders, in the midst of the war, to solve the pressing social and economic problems besetting their country. Iran's economic infrastruc- ture has been largely destroy- ed, leading to a high level of unemployment and a wide- spread fall in living standards. In addition, educational facilities and medical services have deteriorated drastically since the revolution, while the population has undergone an unprecedented explosion (from 37 million to 50 million in the past 10 years). According to the observers, Iran's leaders feared that growing disaffection and widespread frustration at their failure to either win the war or solve the socio- economic problems would ultimately destroy the Islam- ic revolution. "Enthusiasm for the war was simply not there any- more," according to Professor David Menashri, a specialist in Iranian affairs at Tel Aviv University. "The willingness to sacrifice lives had disappeared. It is widely believed that the Iranian decision to call a "When the tensions are reduced, Iraq could comfortably contribute an expeditionary force of three or four divisions to join in a war against Israel." halt to the fighting was engineered by the powerful Speaker of the Iranian Parlia- ment, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a moderate pragmatist who was appoint- ed commander-in-chief of the Iranian Armed Forces just six weeks ago. Rafsanjani, who is believed to have held intensive secret contacts with Washington over the past two months, is credited with having persuad- ed the ailing Ayatollah Kho- meini — or perhaps other in- fluential Iranian clerics — to stop the war in order to save the revolution. Such a decision, say the observers, is unlikely to have been taken without the bless- ing of leading Iranian relig- ious figures, but the observers are still not certain whether the ceasefire agreement is a temporary, tactical move or the beginning of a process that will lead to a full-blown settlement with Iraq. Nor are they certain whether this apparent victory for Rafsanjani represents the ascendancy of the pragma- tists over the radicals in Teheran or whether the pragmatists have simply been "set up" in anticipation of the real power struggle that will follow in a post-Khomeini Iran. For the immediate future, however, the emphasis in both