The Day in the Gulf

SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY: Secretary of State James A. Baker III will go to four Mideast countries, Turkey and the Soviet Union next week to pursue a four-point diplomatic campaign designed to secure the postwar Persian Gulf, the State Department announced. The itinerary will take Baker to Israel for the first time.

ARMS BAN URGED: The Bush Administration will urge the U.N. Security Council to maintain a ban on all weapons shipments to Iraq as long as Saddam Hussein remains in power, the State Department said. The proposed resolution also will call for release of all Kuwaitis and other nationals detained by Iraq.

TRUCE HOLDS: Allied military officials said the cease-fire is largely holding. President Bush felt “great relief that the fighting had stopped,” said spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. “But there’s still great concern about the next several days.” The U.S. military reported a few truce violations, including an incident in which Iraqi tanks exchanged fire with U.S. forces removing remains of U.S. airmen killed in a copter crash.

ALLIED LOSSES: U.S. losses were put at 79 killed--28 of them in the ground campaign--and 213 wounded. A total of at least 138 allied troops were killed in combat; 66 were missing in action, including 45 Americans, and 13 were prisoners of war, including nine Americans.

IRAQI LOSSES: Iraq’s army, the world’s fourth-largest on the eve of war, was a shambles. The U.S. military said the allies destroyed or otherwise defeated 42 Iraqi divisions, leaving only one division intact. They also destroyed or captured more than 3,000 of the 5,000 tanks Iraq had in the theater, 1,857 of its 5,000 armored vehicles and 2,140 of its 3,500 artillery pieces. More than 80,000 POWs were taken. No counts were issued for Iraqi dead.