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...June 27, Major General J. Lawton Collins' VII Corps captured Cherbourg (after the besieged Germans had destroyed most of the port facilities), but the Americans remained just as penned in as the British. More than 1 million men now appeared stalemated on a front of no more than 100 miles, and while neither side could win a decisive advantage in the swampy and hedgerowed terrain, both suffered heavy losses. "We were stuck," said Corporal Bill Preston of the 743rd Tank Battalion. "Something dreadful seemed to have happened in terms of the overall plan...
...latest round in the tanker war began early last week when a Kuwaiti-owned tanker of medium size, the Umm Casbah, was hit by rockets after leaving the Kuwaiti port of Mina al-Ahmadi. The Britain-bound ship was only slightly damaged, and after an emergency stop at Bahrain it sailed on toward the Strait of Hormuz with its cargo of fuel oil. The same evening, Iraq declared that it had not fired on gulf shipping for four days. If true, it could only mean that Iran had joined the tanker war at last...
...week earlier, was still floundering and in danger of breaking up. Later that day, a Kuwaiti tanker, the Bahrah, was struck by a rocket after being circled by two unidentified planes. One aircraft returned to fire a second rocket, but the ship was able to continue to a Kuwaiti port. The Kuwaiti Cabinet subsequently issued a statement blaming Iran for the attack...
Next came a strike on a Saudi supertanker, the Yenbu Pride, which was heading south from Kuwait toward the Saudi port of Ras Tanura and was within Saudi coastal waters when it was hit by rockets. Again the Iranians were blamed. After a day's respite, two more ships were reported hit on Friday, this time by Iraq, and on Saturday came the sinking of the Greek-owned cargo vessel by an Iraqi missile...
...investigating one report that a cargo of 80 parrots sent from Bolivia to The Netherlands included up to two dozen dead birds that were stuffed with cocaine. One group of South American narcotics dealers is believed to have coated outgoing crocodile skins with pure cocaine. The smugglers assured port inspectors that the powder was a preservative, then later removed the coke with a vacuum cleaner...