Word: gulf
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Instrumental in the success of the gulf strike were the efforts of Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Contending that it is far better to prevent minelaying than to hunt for explosives after they are planted, Crowe overrode interservice rivalries and dispatched a specially equipped and trained Army unit to join the gulf fleet. Three weeks ago he visited Rear Admiral Harold Bernsen, commander of the Middle East Force on the command ship U.S.S. La Salle off Bahrain. The two officers worked on the plans to track and catch Iranian vessels capable of laying mines. Crowe...
...point. Last July the council unanimously called for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war, which Iraq declared it would accept. But Iran stalled, refusing to clarify its intentions even when visited by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar during his unsuccessful peace mission to the gulf area two weeks...
...less of the surface. Navy specialists said the same type of mines had damaged the Bridgeton in the shipping channel to Kuwait in July and the Texaco Caribbean just outside the Strait of Hormuz in August. The same type of mine destroyed a supply boat in the Gulf of Oman last month, killing five crewmen...
...Moscow and Peking. The Chinese, whom U.S. officials charged with regularly selling arms to Iran, have been cool to an embargo. In a U.N. address that was generally easy on the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sidestepped the sanctions issue and instead called for joint U.N. protection of gulf shipping...
...capture of the Iran Ajr renewed another debate that seemed to have a similar lack of substantive effect. On Capitol Hill, a group of Senators claimed that the U.S. clearly was engaged in hostilities in the gulf. That, they argued, required the President to observe the War Powers Resolution. Under the law, Reagan is required to notify Congress of the use of U.S. military forces in a hostile situation; the troops would have to be withdrawn in 60 days unless both houses approved the assignment...