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...Democrats, save Jesse Jackson, attempt to persuade voters that they have outgrown the McGovernite aversion to strong action abroad. Yet most of them oppose specific intervention in almost every case, giving the impression that the Viet Nam syndrome still governs their thinking. On the question of reflagging Kuwaiti tankers, for example, only Gore supports the White House. Thus gritty rhetoric often looks like mere posturing. Says Alvin From, executive director of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council: "Tough talk does not substitute for a credible sense that a candidate will really fight for something...
Last Saturday, the day after the battle in Mecca, mobs ransacked the Kuwaiti and Saudi embassies in Tehran and captured four Saudi diplomats...
Last week the Administration thought it had found a prime example of loose tongues in Congress: it denounced the disclosure by Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, that the first Kuwaiti tankers to fly the U.S. flag would take to sea this Wednesday. Aspin replied sharply that this detail had not been classified and that Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole had also mentioned it. Moreover, both Aspin and Dole had been briefed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who made no claim that the date of the first...
...which has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980, expressed support for France's firm stance. The Reagan Administration was engaged in its own war of words with Tehran. Interior Minister Mohtashami vowed retaliation if the U.S. proceeded this week with its plans to reflag Kuwaiti tankers and use American warships to protect the vessels in the Persian Gulf. Said Mohtashami: "Islamic Revolutionary Guards will turn the Persian Gulf into a graveyard for the Americans." According to some reports, Iran has mobilized seaborne suicide squads, who plan to ram U.S. ships with vessels that have been turned into floating...
Nonetheless, White House officials hinted that the inaugural convoy now might begin a day or two after July 22. Though the operation has already been delayed for seven weeks, the Kuwaiti tankers are still undergoing a final U.S. Coast Guard inspection at several undisclosed foreign ports. According to congressional sources, the first reflagged Kuwaiti ship, accompanied initially by the carrier U.S.S. Constellation and then by naval warships, will steam from the United Arab Emirates port of Khor Fakkan on the Indian Ocean to the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi, some 675 miles away. After refueling and loading up with...