* American gunners pounded Iraqi positions with artillery fire. Iraqi missiles afloat in the Persian Gulf damaged two U.S. Navy warships.
* Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, met with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow and was presented with what a Kremlin spokesperson described only as a "concrete plan" for settlement of the gulf crisis. Aziz then flew back to Iran, and from there he will head overland to Iraq today. The Soviets said they expected a swift response from Saddam.
* White House statements indicated the diplomatic efforts in Moscow would not affect the war timetable.
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