Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amounts to ending Western control of the gulf, which the British maintained for a century and which the United States has been keeping for the past 15 years, and turning it over to a joint partnership with the Soviet Union. Because of what? Because in an accidental attack one Iraqi plane hit one American ship that was asleep in a war zone...
Many Americans are reacting with frustration to the attack on the U.S.S. Stark by an Iraqi plane ((NATION, June 1)). It is time this country took some action and ignored the opinion of the rest of the world. We can no longer dismiss these incidents as accidents. America should react in a way befitting a superpower...
...release of 17 Shi'ite Muslim terrorists being held in Kuwait in return for one or two American captives. Hakim, following Secord's recommendations, went as far as to commit the U.S. to fighting the Soviets if they invaded Iran, and he pledged U.S. assistance in efforts to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Secord and North approved Hakim's arrangement. Four days before the election, Hostage David Jacobsen was freed (nonetheless, the G.O.P. lost control of the Senate). When Liman sarcastically asked Hakim if he felt as if he had played "Secretary of State for a day," the businessman boasted...
...Administration continued to weigh its next move, the Navy released its report on the May 17 Iraqi missile attack on the U.S.S. Stark, which killed 37 sailors and crippled the frigate. The report left unclarified the central mystery: Why had the Stark not taken prompt action to defend itself when an Iraqi plane's radar locked on to it? According to the Navy, the Stark's antimissile weapons were "operational," meaning they could have been activated by the push of a button, but no button was pushed...
Meanwhile, in Baghdad, a team of Pentagon and State Department officials ended its investigation of the Stark attack. After meeting with Iraqi officials, Rear Admiral David Rogers, head of the U.S. delegation, said he was "certain we have the information to piece together what happened." He refused to confirm reports, however, that they had not spoken with the pilot who evidently mistook the Stark for an Iranian tanker and blasted the frigate with two Exocet missiles...