Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warship escorting tankers hits an Iranian mine, do you think the U.S. should retaliate militarily...
...make its way north through the gulf to Kuwait, it was disclosed that the vessels were protected by the amphibious assault ship U.S.S. Guadalcanal and its RH-53 Sea Stallion minesweeping helicopters. The choppers, the same type used last week by Iran, flew ahead of the convoy, dragging mine-detecting sonar devices through the water...
...Guadalcanal and its mine hunters are expected this week to provide the same service for four fully loaded U.S.-registered tankers waiting in Kuwait to make the perilous trip south. In the U.S., meanwhile, the Navy reactivated eight Korean War-era minesweepers and dispatched them to the gulf. The ships are not expected to arrive for several weeks...
...government tried to seize control in the mid-1940s by nationalizing the mines, but that merely led to rampant corruption. Many of the bureaucrats put in charge looted the mining companies' profits. At the same time, the government could not stop the violence around the mines. After 900 deaths occurred at a mine one year in the early 1970s, the authorities had to shut it down. In 1977 the government decided to grant short-term leases to several private mining companies. That strategy, however, has had little success. The government-sanctioned companies produce only about 20% of Colombia's emerald...
Though Britain and France had rejected U.S. pleas for minesweepers two weeks ago, both now felt compelled to act. London announced it was sending four mine hunters to join the three-warship Armilla Patrol that has escorted British tankers in the region for the past six years. Defense Secretary George Younger, however, insisted that the vessels would be used only to protect British ships in the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz...