BAC KG ROU N D • Loose Cannon Continued from preceding page The Iraqi leader has galvanized Arab opinion, particularly over Israel, and his influence is likely to be felt over a wide area long after his disappearance from the Middle East arena. For pan-Arab nationalists, Israel — like Kuwait — is a foreign implantation, an imperialist outpost in the heart of the Arab nation; for the growing body of funda- mentalists, it represents an intrusion by the infidel West into the House of Islam. To the important extent that Saddam Hussein has once again allowed the Arab world to articulate these old hatreds, the search for peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors has been returned to square one. In the view of one senior MICHAEL ZIPSER Rare Coin Investment Specialist A major Detroit area bank asked us to assist them with an estate collection. The top offer they had received as just $7,500. We liquidated the collection in less than two weeks for over $30,000! 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He is also said to have pressed Mr. Baker to urgently resume talks with Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians, along with all five permanent mem- bers of the Security Coun- cil. Mr. Baker reportedly re- jected the demands, re- sponding that the Pales- tinian issue would remain a matter for the U.S., Israel and Egypt to resolve, whereupon Mr. Dumas accused the Americans of failing to exert pressure on Israel for "domestic political considerations." According to French sources, the confrontation that followed was "irate," while the State Depart- ment sources characteris- ed it as a "row." It is understood that France intends to call a meeting of the Security Council "as soon as possible" to take up the issue. State Department sources, meanwhile, said they would resist such a move for "as long as possible." Washington is concern- ed that a hastily convened Security Council meeting on the Palestinian issue would not only divert at- tention from the Gulf crisis itself, but lead Saddam to conclude that his invasion of Kuwait had been vindicated. There is said to be some disquiet about the unvar- nished European en- thusiasm for Arab-Israel negotiations, an unease that the resolve of Arab states currently ranged against Iraq might weaken if the prospect of a solution to the Israeli- Palestinian dispute is perceived as being more important than ending Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. — Helen Davis