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...armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers against neutral oil tankers and freighters. The speedboats, with crews of four to eight men and often no markings indicating country of origin, are Iran's chief weapon in the gulf. The boats made hit-and-run attacks against Greek, Cypriot, Italian, Spanish, South Korean and Japanese vessels. On Friday, Iran for the first time launched one of its Chinese-made Silkworm missiles from occupied Iraqi territory on the Fao peninsula. The missile plunged harmlessly into the water off a Kuwaiti beach. Most of the ships hit by Iran were sailing...
...often illusory. With mines concealed below, jet fighters screaming above and antiship missiles lurking onshore, sudden violence was an ever present danger. More than 200 vessels had been attacked in the gulf during the past three years. Earlier on this day, Iraqi jets had delivered missiles into a Cypriot tanker, leaving it dead in the water. The increasing threats to shipping in the vital region were precisely why the Stark was there, signaling U.S. determination to keep the oil lifelines open...
Iraqi warplanes firing antiship Exocet missiles set a Cypriot tanker ablaze in Iranian waters, one day after an Iraqi air attack on a shrimp trawler killed its Australian skipper...
...Greek Cypriot government of President Spyros Kyprianou, the Karachi hijacking presented a dilemma. Cyprus is anxious not to antagonize its Arab neighbors, but is determined to do everything it can to discourage hijackers from landing at Larnaca airport. As soon as the terrorists demanded they be flown to the eastern Mediterranean island, the Cypriot government announced that the jumbo jet would not be allowed to land there. Whether the Cypriots would have remained firm in their resolve if the Pan Am plane had arrived in their air space is uncertain. "But fortunately," sighed one relieved Cypriot official, "our will...
...diameter, is the earliest ever found, and may prove that raw glass, later to be transformed into jewelry or goblets, was being shipped from Syria as early as the 15th century B.C. The unusual mixture of objects appears to be from three different ancient cultures, Mycenaean, Cypriot and Canaanite. "A mix of goods," says Bass, "that puzzles...