Around the World

In TOKYO, men wearing gas masks passed out anti-war leaflets as 1,200 people rallied in a park. They urged Japan to drop plans to contribute $9 billion to allied forces. . . . SPAIN, a Gulf coalition partner, expressed full support for the ground offensive, but about 25,000 protesters in Madrid carried banners expressing solidarity with the Iraqi people. . . . About 400 Muslims marched in LONDON with banners reading, “Saddam Hussein is the champion of Islam.” . . . CUBA’s U.N. ambassador called President Bush’s TV address announcing the ground war “hypocrisy and nonsense.” . . . INDIA said it regrets the failure of the Soviet peace proposals and the U.N. Security Council “lying paralyzed.”