THE GULF WAR : In the Mideast

IRAQI Deputy Prime Minister Sadoun Hammadi arrived in IRAN to conduct the first face-to-face talks between the two former adversary nations since the Gulf War began. ALGERIAN, FRENCH and YEMENI officials also traveled to Tehran for talks. After meeting with SAUDI ARABIA’S King Fahd, EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak affirmed that Egypt’s 45,000 troops in the Gulf would not be used to strike Iraq. In ALGERIA, tens of thousands of Muslim fundamentalist marched in support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But in Saudi Arabia, a chief religious legislator called Hussein an “enemy of God.”