THE POISON INTRUDES

Saudi Arabia is one of the committee of seven, charged by last month's Baghdad Foreign Ministers' meeting to lobby industrial countries to end any action on their part which leads to a continuation of the Gulf war. It was not so stated, but the committee would be trying to close off support for Iran. Six Arab Foreign Ministers and the Arab League Secretary General would not, it may be confidently assumed, be seeking the shut-down of industrial nations' supplies to Iraq.