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...stopping me? There are a lot of positive things about the Persian Gulf," he said...
Mounting tensions in the oil-rich Persian Gulf and the nation's increasing dependency on foreign oil have pushed energy issues into the fore-front of the 1988 presidential race...
Dukakis has proposed a major shift from current priorities, calling for development of domestic energy resources, a change in trading partners from the warring nations of the Persian Gulf to countries closer to home, such as Canada, Mexico and Venezuela. He also called for the U.S. to impose sanctions on Iran and Iraq...
...Iranians' official reaction was to deny that their gunboats had fired first. Once again Iran's leaders vowed to strike back at the U.S. Threatened the Islamic Republic News Agency: "The Americans will be the main victims of the heavy storm in the Persian Gulf...
...rivals these days are depicting him as Senator Thunderbolt. Gore has supported the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf, the invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Libya. He opposes the proposal by most of his opponents for a ban on missile flight tests. He says his centrist views make him more "electable" than the other five Democrats in the race, particularly Michael Dukakis, who opposes almost any use of American force abroad as well as virtually all new nuclear weapon systems...