The Day in the Gulf

THE OIL SPILL: The U.S. Central Command said bombing by allied forces appears to have stopped the flow of oil into the Persian Gulf from the supertanker terminal in Kuwait. International experts arrived in the area to staunch the world’s worst oil spill, now totaling about 460 million gallons.

* MORE JETS IN IRAN: More than 80 Iraqi aircraft have now flown to Iran, the U.S. military reported. Army Brig. Gen. Pat Stevens IV said the allied command is delighted by those landings but that he does not understand why the Iraqis are doing it. Iran has vowed to remain neutral in the war.

* LOST HARRIER: The Pentagon said the allies carried out more than 2,500 sorties. A U.S. Marine AV-8 Harrier jet was lost in combat--the first allied loss in more than two days.

* SCUDS THWARTED: U.S. Patriot missiles knocked out an incoming Iraqi Scud missile on the outskirts of the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Parts of a Scud landed on Arab villages in the occupied West Bank of Israel.

* 2 PRESIDENTS SPEAK: In an address to religious broadcasters, President Bush said the United States does not seek to destroy Iraq or win the conflict in a way that “Iraq itself could be the target of aggression.” In an interview with CNN, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said he has no doubt that Iraq will win the war, and he did not rule out using chemical, biological or nuclear weapons to repel attackers.

* CASUALTIES IN IRAQ: Baghdad claimed that some captured pilots have been injured in air raids by allied warplanes. In a letter to the U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, it also said more than 345 civilians have died in the raids.