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...canceling flights to both Baghdad and Tehran. Foreign residents in Tehran, eager to leave after a series of Iraqi air attacks on the capital's northern areas, mobbed airline offices in an effort to secure passage out of the country. At the same time, the "tanker war" in the Persian Gulf went on unabated as Iraq reportedly attacked the principal Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island. The purpose: to demonstrate to Tehran that it cannot win a war of attrition...
...noticed. Doctrines, like submarines, tend to be launched with fanfare. The Monroe Doctrine was instantly recognized, on both sides of the Atlantic, as a historic declaration; the Truman Doctrine was unveiled in a dramatic address to a joint session of Congress; and when President Carter announced a new aggressive Persian Gulf policy on Jan. 23, 1980, by the next morning the New York Times had dubbed it "the Carter Doctrine." President Reagan saw fit to bury his doctrine in his 1985 State of the Union address beneath the balanced budget amendment, school prayer and the line-item veto. That...
...that question has been suggested to Americans by a band of fanatical Islamic warriors in Afghanistan. Unaware of their historic contribution to the theory of containment, they took on the Soviet army, made it bleed and slowed its march to the more coveted goal, the warm waters of the Persian Gulf...
...Soviets believe, for example, that they should be able to invade and occupy Afghanistan because it adjoins a border where they feel vulnerable to Chinese subversion and Islamic upheaval. Never mind that an American ally, Pakistan, as well as vital American interests in the Persian Gulf, is jeopardized as a result. The Soviets claim the right to have "fraternal" relations with Fidel Castro, whose rule they underwrite to the tune of about $11 million a day, but they accept no responsibility for his mischief making in Latin America and Africa. They insist on cosponsoring with the U.S. any negotiated settlement...
...will accept nothing less than the overthrow of Iraq's President and its ruling Baath Party--and Saddam is not about to assent to his own downfall. In an effort to persuade Iran to negotiate by choking off its oil revenues, the Iraqis began attacking tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf last March. Since the start of the "tanker war," 44 oil carriers have been hit. The campaign has failed to cripple Iran, though reports from Tehran indicate that the country is suffering from shortages of almost every commodity except food, medicine and weaponry...