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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limit Iranian ship losses to a single vessel. When two Iranian frigates, the Sahand and the Sabalan, fired on American reconnaissance aircraft, U.S. warships went after them. A Harpoon missile launched by the U.S. destroyer Joseph Strauss hit the Sahand. The missile, delivered from a distance of 20 miles, blew a hole in the Iranian vessel's hull. An F-14 Tomcat from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in the Strait of Hormuz delivered a laser-guided cluster bomb that disabled the * Sabalan. Even though the Sabalan was the ship that had been targeted to be sunk by the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Tangling with Tehran | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Saturday, there was to be no overtime, as Radcliffe came out early and just blew Dartmouth away in scrummages...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: W. Ruggers Capture N.E. Championships | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

NAPLES, Italy--A car bomb blew up in front of a club for U.S. military personnel in Naples yesterday, killing five people and wounding at least 17, Italian officials said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Explodes At U.S. Club in Naples | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...Palestinians have been shot, beaten or tear gassed to death. Four Palestinians have been deported from their homeland, thousands of others arrested without charge. Telephone lines, electricity and even food have been denied to various Arab villages. And in one of the most recent events, the Israeli occupation forces blew up the homes of more than a dozen Arab families in response to the alleged stoning of a young Jewish girl. It was later discovered that the girl had been mistakenly shot by her Jewish bodyguard and that not only had the Arab villagers not stoned her to death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Anti-Israel Campaign | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

...whistle blew, the game began, but the Harvard men's lacrosse team was still on vacation...

Author: By Nicholas N. Branca, | Title: Quakers Get Best Of Laxmen, 15-10 | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

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