Word: convoying
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...ship, ripping a gash ten feet wide in its hull. As oil oozed into the sea and sailors hosed down the deck, the Texaco Caribbean limped farther offshore to avoid contaminating nearby beaches with oil. Western diplomats speculated that the device was intended for the U.S.-escorted tanker convoy, which had steamed through the area two days earlier...
...part, the Administration insists that its policy is to retaliate swiftly against attacks on the gulf convoy -- once the aggressor has been accurately identified. Discussing the Bridgeton incident recently, for example, Weinberger asserted that it is impossible to know who laid the mine. "They don't leave fingerprints," said the Secretary curtly...
...years, American warships have been plying the Persian Gulf, symbolizing and substantiating the nation's role as a global power. Never before, however, have those vital waters seemed so treacherous. By blustering into an open- ended commitment to provide convoy protection to eleven reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers, the U.S. now finds itself embroiled as a halfhearted belligerent in a seven-year-old struggle between Iran and Iraq and once more rattling sabers with Tehran's fanatic mullahs...
...convoy proceeded, American sailors stood on deck with rifles to shoot any mines that appeared. But minesweepers normally must first cut the tethers that keep them submerged. Despite Reagan's $1.8 trillion military buildup, including $592 billion for the Navy, the U.S. has only three active oceangoing minesweepers, all built during the Korean...
Nonetheless, White House officials hinted that the inaugural convoy now might begin a day or two after July 22. Though the operation has already been delayed for seven weeks, the Kuwaiti tankers are still undergoing a final U.S. Coast Guard inspection at several undisclosed foreign ports. According to congressional sources, the first reflagged Kuwaiti ship, accompanied initially by the carrier U.S.S. Constellation and then by naval warships, will steam from the United Arab Emirates port of Khor Fakkan on the Indian Ocean to the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi, some 675 miles away. After refueling and loading up with...