Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tomcat from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in the Strait of Hormuz delivered a laser-guided cluster bomb that disabled the * Sabalan. Even though the Sabalan was the ship that had been targeted to be sunk by the Navy because of its frequent attacks on merchant ships in the gulf, Carlucci and Crowe ordered naval commanders not to sink the stricken vessel, hoping to limit Iranian casualties. The U.S. also damaged or destroyed three Iranian speedboats, bringing to six the total number of vessels lost by Iran...
Iran's setback in the gulf was serious enough, but the loss of the Fao was devastating. The peninsula, gateway to the Shatt al-Arab waterway and the southeastern port city of Basra, had been captured by Iranian forces in 1986. In a surprise offensive code-named Blessed Ramadan, after the Islamic holy month that began last week, President Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi Seventh Army, supported by elite Presidential Guards, to attack the peninsula's Iranian defenders. Early last week, following a successful 36-hour armored blitzkrieg, the Iraqi victory was complete...
Iran's growing unpredictability has prompted U.S. military planners to begin changing American rules of engagement in the gulf. Administration officials suggested that a "cooperative approach," using help from U.S. allies, will be employed with greater frequency in the future. The goal is to put Iran on notice that the U.S. Navy could come to the aid not just of U.S.-flagged vessels in the gulf, as is currently the case, but also of those registered to other nations...
That operation had been the longest continuous skyjacking in history, a terror-filled 15-day epic that began with the capture of the plane as it neared the gulf and continued during stops at the Iranian city of Mashhad and the Cypriot city of Larnaca before reaching a seven-day standoff in Algiers. For many of the 31 hostages inside the aircraft, the tipoff to approaching | freedom came when the hijackers began systematically wiping overhead compartments and doorways to erase their fingerprints. Then, following a plan apparently worked out in advance with Algerian negotiators, they quietly left the aircraft...
...details emerge about the assassination of Khalil al- Wazir by an Israeli hit squad, debate persists over whether his death will deepen unrest in the occupied territories. -- An interview with Jordan' s King Hussein. -- Mounting its most serious military strike in the gulf so far, the U. S. clobbers Iran at sea. -- In Moscow, signs of a Politburo power struggle between Gorbachev...