Voices Against War

While much of the world celebrated prospects for peace in the Persian Gulf, others kept up the outcry against war. In LONDON, British and U.S. flags were set afire at a rally by 2,000 people Saturday. At Columbia University in NEW YORK, a speech Friday by U.N. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering was interrupted when protesters rose and silently unfurled anti-war banners. One read: “U.N., Accomplice to Murder.” And the VATICAN’s newspaper Saturday condemned reports celebrating the allies’ low casualty numbers in the war: “Faced with the extermination of populations, we cannot tranquilize our consciences maintaining that ‘fortunately’ . . . the number of the dead is less than predicted.”