Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attacks bring to 375 the number of vessels attacked or damaged by Iraqi and Iranian forces in the gulf since the war between the two nations began seven years ago, Lloyd's of London said...
...official Iraqi News Agency said Iraqi jets hit a second ship in the gulf later in the day, but that claim was not immediately confirmed by other sources...
...French and British ships are part of an international flotilla building up inside and outside the Persian Gulf that totals about 80 vessels--the largest such naval gathering since the Korean War. About six Soviet warships are also in the area...
Iran, which retaliates for Iraqi strikes on its tanker routes on a ship-for-ship basis, sent a frigate to raid the Indian tanker Spic Emerald in the southern gulf. The vessel was carrying a Yugoslav-bound shipment of volatile petrochemical called ethylene dichloride, or EDC, loaded at Saudi Arabian ports...
...French mine sweeper discovered a mine in the Gulf of Oman near the United Arab Emirates port of Khor-Al-Fakkan, near where it found another mine the previous day, the Defense Ministry in Paris said...