DESERT STORM: DAY 9 : Political

The United States is shipping more Patriot anti-missile missiles to Israel to help protect against Iraqi Scud missile attacks, the White House said. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said he would not disclose the size of the new shipment but said the missiles began arriving in Israel on Thursday night.

The exiled government of Kuwait gave $13.5 billion to the Persian Gulf war effort. Secretary of State James A. Baker III accepted the Kuwaiti contribution at a meeting with Sheik Saud Nasir al Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador. Last year, Kuwaiti officials provided $5 billion to the effort to free their country; other gulf nations, including Saudi Arabia, gave a total of $12 billion. The war is costing the United States a minimum of $600 million a day.