Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran's setback in the gulf was serious enough, but the loss of the Fao was devastating. The peninsula, gateway to the Shatt al-Arab waterway and the southeastern port city of Basra, had been captured by Iranian forces in 1986. In a surprise offensive code-named Blessed Ramadan, after the Islamic holy month that began last week, President Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi Seventh Army, supported by elite Presidential Guards, to attack the peninsula's Iranian defenders. Early last week, following a successful 36-hour armored blitzkrieg, the Iraqi victory was complete...
...unexploded rocket dangled from the Sea Trader's hull after the attack but fell into the sea before the tanker reached the port of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates...
...speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Sea Trader encountered a flotilla of six armed speedboats as it sailed into the gulf through the strait about 11:30 p.m. EDT Saturday. The tanker, owned by a Saudi firm but flying the Liberian flag, was bound for the Saudi oil port of Ras Tanura...
...Mardone,ss 2 0 1 2 Fox,3b 4 1 1 2 Scussel,c 4 0 1 0 Veloria,2b 3 1 2 0 Z'caso,2b 1 0 0 0 Markey,rf 4 1 1 0 Li'berger,dh 3 1 1 0 Dav'port,p 3 1 1 0 Lane,1b x x x x Totals...
...Pentagon spokesman in Washington, Lt. Col. Jim Jannette, said the USS Paul and USS Capodanno were in the Naples port at the time of the blast. The Capodanno's home port is Newport, R.I., and the Paul is from Mayport, Fla. Also in the Naples port was the USNS Kaiser, a Navy fueling vessel with a mainly civilian crew, he said...