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...Washington, Senate opponents of the Administration's reflagging plans failed to muster enough votes to call for a 90-day delay in the operation. In the House, tempers flared over a remark by Congressman Les Aspin that the first U.S.-escorted convoy would sail July 22. Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, revealed the date after attending an Administration briefing. Republican Minority Leader Robert Michel accused Democrat Aspin of "unforgivable" behavior, but Aspin pointed out, correctly, that Republican Senator Robert Dole had also disclosed the date to reporters...
...were not in the Resistance?" Truche pointed out that Barbie did not need to arrest 44 Jewish children in one school and have them shipped to Nazi death camps. Nor was it necessary to send 650 people, including a dozen children, to camps on the second-to-last convoy to leave France. Said Truche: "A crime against humanity presupposes a plunge into inhumanity. This plunge you have experienced here with these men and women, who have told us what they never dared tell those closest to them...
...Rajiv Gandhi, which up until then had been trying to mediate the civil war, dispatched 19 fishing boats laden with food and medical supplies across the Palk Strait to the battle zone. Condemning the shipment as interference in its internal affairs, Sri Lanka sent naval vessels to interdict the convoy, which was turned back after a tense confrontation in mid-strait...
...Soviets still have an overwhelming advantage in firepower. Their convoys of tanks and armored personnel carriers and their infantry-fighting vehicles patrol widely, and the guerrillas enjoy no secure area. On the other hand, Soviet ground forces cannot occupy and hold the countryside. The resistance fighters are too tenacious and constantly attack convoy supply lines. The Soviets are thus trapped in a war that they will never lose -- but probably can never...
...missile frigate Hawes provided escort for the lone tanker in the convoy, the 46,723-ton Gas Prince, a liquefied gas carrier...