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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...
...noon Tuesday, six French-made F-1 Mirages streaked out of the west. They fired Exocet missiles and dropped laser-guided bombs on an estimated 15 tankers anchored off Sirri and on the terminal itself. Three ships were hit, ^ and one, the 233,788-ton Iranian supertanker Azarpad, was consumed by flames. Fires on two other vessels and the 6-sq.-mi. island took a day to control. In all, at least eight seamen died...
...confirmed that the May 4, 1982, sinking of the British destroyer Sheffield, and the death of 20 crew members, resulted from a bizarre coincidence. The ministry said that the Sheffield's captain was on a communications hookup to naval headquarters at the precise moment an Argentine warplane fired an Exocet missile at the ship. The captain's unfortunately timed call had jammed the destroyer's radar system, allowing the craft to take a direct...
...their daughter, who graduated from Berkeley, is . . . well, currently on tour. As one of the four members of a sensational rock outfit called the Bangles. Who have a new Columbia album called Different Light. Who have an ace single, Manic Monday, written pseudonymously by Prince and closing like an Exocet onto the top of the charts. Who will not have to introduce themselves to anyone by the time summer rolls around...
...Iraqi strikes that preceded the Iranian aerial campaign were apparently carried out by French-built Mirage F1 fighter-bombers equipped to fire Exocet missiles. Iraq took delivery of 28 such F1 models last summer, all specially modified to use the standoff antiship missile that first made its mark during the Falklands war. With a range of up to 1,000 miles, the Mirages are also capable of venturing deeper into the gulf than aircraft used by the Iraqis in the past. Iraq's aim: to interdict oil shipments from the Iranian oil port at Kharg Island, thus pressing Tehran...