Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week, two more setbacks struck President Reagan's policy in the Persian Gulf. A mine destroyed an Arab supply vessel in what were supposedly safe waters off the United Arab Emirates, and a possible act of terrorism destroyed a major Saudi Arabian-American oil installation in the Gulf itself...
...military questions alone threatened to be an enormously nuanced exercise. Some strategists have already been severely critical of the Administration for failing to hit back at Iran when the reflagged tanker Bridgeton struck a mine last month. "We should have pulverized Farsi Island," fumed Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser. "All this power cringing in the area is a terrible embarrassment...
...part, the Administration insists that its policy is to retaliate swiftly against attacks on the gulf convoy -- once the aggressor has been accurately identified. Discussing the Bridgeton incident recently, for example, Weinberger asserted that it is impossible to know who laid the mine. "They don't leave fingerprints," said the Secretary curtly...
...doubt about the intent of the maneuvers, they were code-named "Martyrdom." One of the reflagged ships, the fully loaded Gas Prince, slipped quietly out of harm's way and toward its destination in Japan before the exercises began. But the supertanker Bridgeton, damaged last month by a mine that may have been planted by the Iranians, remained in Kuwait. Meanwhile, Washington found itself in the humiliating position of pleading with its European allies to send minesweepers to the gulf, a request that all spurned. At week's end the U.S. was rushing eight Sea Stallion minesweeping helicopters...
Coast guard patrols in Fujairah ordered ships away from the 35-square-mile area after an Arab vessel reported sighting the sixth mine early yesterday...