Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan moved yesterday to ban all U.S. imports from Iran, citing "the continued and increasingly bellicose behavior" of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's government in the Persian Gulf...
...intelligence first spotted the missiles last March along the Iranian banks of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow strip of water through which all shipping must pass on its way into and out of the gulf. Though Iranian officials have frequently threatened to close the strait, such a scenario is considered unlikely, since much of Iran's own oil exports must pass through the waterway...
...Khomeini's fanatical followers have instead chosen to use the Silkworms for assaults on vulnerable Kuwait, which has supplied billions of dollars to Iraq during the seven-year war. Dozens of ships bound to and from Kuwait have come under fire from armed Iranian speedboats that race around the gulf. Until now, however, the Iranians have taken care not to directly attack the eleven tankers -- half the Kuwaiti-owned fleet -- now under the protection of U.S. warships...
...blast of gloom sends the stock market plunging, war heats up in the Persian Gulf, and Nancy Reagan enters the hospital for cancer surgery. But in Texas a dedicated crew rescues a little girl from her ordeal at the bottom of a well. -- On the Republican right, a muted movement watches Bush and Dole on the rise...
...separate gulf attacks, Iranian missiles hit U. S.- owned and U. S.- registered ships. -- Costa Rica' s Arias wins the Nobel Prize for Peace...