Iran Meantime Back in Tehran

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That meeting could conceivably provide Saddam with another opportunity to seek a negotiated settlement for a war that the Iraqi President started in 1980 and has long since come to regret. But given Khomeini's capacity for wreaking vengeance upon his bitterest enemy, it may be that peacemaking is something he will reserve for the Ayatullah's eventual successor.

FOOTNOTE: *The five remaining U.S. captives: Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press; Thomas Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut; Joseph Cicippio, the American University's comptroller; Frank Reed, the director of a private elementary school; and Edward Tracy, a writer. A sixth, U.S. Embassy Officer William Buckley, is believed to have been killed by his captors last year.