CUBA, YEMEN OFFER PEACE PLAN TO SECURITY COUNCIL.(Main)

Byline: Combined wire services

Cuba and Yemen circulated a new peace plan Thursday as the U.N. Security Council met behind closed doors in its first review of the Persian Gulf war.

The latest peace proposal calls for a halt to allied bombing and the appointment of a Security Council commission to examine ways of ending the fighting, diplomats said. The proposed commission would report back to the 15-member Council by Feb. 25, they said.

Diplomats said the proposal had no chance of being adopted because the United States would certainly veto it.

It was the first closed-door session of the council in 15 years. Iraq's envoy condemned the bombing deaths of civilians in Baghdad and declared Kuwait a province of Iraq.

Emerging from the opening session, diplomats reported that …