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...detonated through the week. Each seemed to end with a disquieting question mark, because each suggested powers beyond personal control: unhinged economic forces, irrational foreign crises, undetected illness. The stock market went into a panicked free fall. Iran launched a Chinese-made missile from Iraqi territory that hit a Kuwaiti tanker that was flying the U.S. flag in the Persian Gulf to protect, in part, Japanese oil supplies. Amid this babble of conflicting national interests, any American action, however justified, promised to inflame unfathomable hatreds. And the man with the responsibility for authorizing any retaliation was shouldering a more personal...
...Sorry, bud," I said. "The Iranians have bombed the Kuwaiti oil terminal and your stocks are now worthless. So what do you say we rap for old times' sake...
...official identified the Kuwaiti missile as a "Strela," the old Western code name for the Soviet Union...
According to the Pentagon sources, the Kuwaiti effort to down the missile explained why that Persian Gulf state was so quick to identify the weapon that struck the Sea Isle City as a Silkworm, a Chinese-built antishipping missile acquired by Iran that has a range of about 50 miles...
...airport news conference outside Tel Aviv, Shultz noted that the attacks took place in Kuwaiti waters, not the international waters the United States has pledged to protect...