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...Hart, who commands roughly 1,250 of the 3,933 delegates and is still under consideration for the second spot on the ticket, will push a plan advocating that the nation seek remedies other than the use of military force to resolve international conflicts; he will specifically mention the Persian Gulf. That will renew a primary debate in which Mondale successfully argued that the use of force, while never desirable, is sometimes unavoidable...
...civil authority to the local people. We are going to invite Jordan to negotiate and suggest to Egypt to start the talks on autonomy again. We are going to suggest turning the Gulf of Aqaba into a secure and tranquil zone that may serve as an alternative to the Persian Gulf...
...past six weeks, three of Kuwait's oil tankers have been attacked in the Persian Gulf as Iran, angered by Iraq's attacks on tankers carrying its oil, has taken out its frustrations on Iraq's Arab allies. With the expansion of the conflict, Kuwait sees the good life it has carved out for itself endangered by a war it does not consider its own. Asserts Foreign Minister Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the state's Foreign Minister: "The war is on our doorstep, and we feel the dangers more than others...
...agreed to refrain from attacking civilian targets, at least for a while. Later they also agreed to allow U.N. observers to be stationed between their armies. In the meantime, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Hashemi Rafsanjani, declared that Iran would call off its assaults on shipping in the Persian Gulf if Iraq would do the same...
Photographer Catherine Leroy, on assignment for TIME, recently spent seven days on a supertanker as it plied the perilous waters of the Persian Gulf to take on 260,000 tons of crude oil at the Iranian oil depot at Kharg Island. The Swedish-built ship, which is owned by Americans and registered in Liberia, is currently chartered by a Japanese firm to carry its cargo to Europe. At the request of the ship's owners, TIME agreed not to identify their vessel. Leroy's report...