Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murderous moment came during the late-afternoon languor, the time for a last cool drink before dinner or a final stretch of sun on the ship's upper deck. Suddenly, the holiday mood aboard the City of Poros, a day cruiser plying the islands in the Saronic Gulf, was shattered by grenade blasts and a fusillade of automatic-weapon fire. For about five minutes, several assailants, possibly as many as four, raked the deck of the 688-ton vessel. They then escaped, apparently by jumping overboard. The hit squad left nine people dead and 47 injured...
...Sunday he was jangled awake in Camp David's Aspen Lodge at 4:52 a.m., even before the birds began to peep, and told that the Navy cruiser Vincennes may have shot down an Iranian F-14 in the Persian Gulf. By 8:11 a.m. he had a written message on reports that the downed plane may have been a civilian airliner. At 9:52 a.m. there was a call suggesting there was something to the story that an Airbus had been blown...
...United States says the Airbus A300 did not respond to repeated questioning by the Vincennes about its identity and the cruiser's captain believed it was an Iranian F-14 fighter transmitting ambiguous signals and descending in attack pattern...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan, calling Americans "a compassionate people," said yesterday the U.S. government will compensate the families of those who perished in an Iranian airliner shot down by a U.S. Navy cruiser...
...first, the incident seemed like another deadly confrontation in the Persian Gulf between the armed forces of the U.S. and Iran. But the affair quickly developed into something far worse. On Sunday morning the Navy cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes, while battling several Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz, mistakenly shot down an Iranian commercial airliner. Iran said the Airbus A300 "exploded in the sky," killing all 298 people on board. Officers on the Vincennes had believed the aircraft was an Iranian F-14 fighter jet that was attacking the U.S. ship. The tragedy immediately invited comparison with the 1983 downing...