THE GULF WAR: The Diplomatic Front : Other Mideast Nations

“Our joy is overflowing. Thanks be to God. The enemy is turning tail,” declared a broadcast by the radio of the exiled KUWAITI government. SYRIA blamed Iraq for the ill-fated outcome of its Kuwait invasion. “The rulers of Baghdad cannot deny their responsibility for . . . the catastrophe,” the government-run Damascus Radio said. EGYPT was skeptical. Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid said the war will not end until Iraq accepts all 12 U.N. edicts. At Cairo University, anti-war protesters and police clashed for the third day. ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said Israel will not be safe until “this man Saddam Hussein . . . disappears from the international arena.”