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There was nothing to directly link the raid on the Sea Trader to Reagan's comments or to an earlier report that the United States was preparing to adopt a new get-tough policy following last week's skirmishes between Iran and the U.S. Navy. But the attack, the first since two ships were hit Tuesday in the aftermath of a major U.S.-Iranian clash the day before, suggested Iran was determined to show its ability to carry out shipping raids despite its losses...
...military communique did not give the affiliation of the guerrillas who carried out the raid, but said they were armed with M-16 rifles, four rockets and hand grenades...
Pretoria did claim responsibility last week for a cross-border attack on what it said was an A.N.C. guerrilla transit facility, situated twelve miles inside Botswana. South African forces staged a postmidnight raid on the house, shot to death four people asleep inside, including at least two Botswanan women, and escaped by helicopter after fire bombing the target. Said Defense Minister General Magnus Malan: "It is the policy of the South African government to combat terror wherever it may occur...
Earlier in the week Aquino had received some very good news. In a major raid in a suburb of Manila, soldiers rounded up five top Communist insurgents, including Romulo ("Rolly") Kintanar, the commander of the 25,000-member New People's Army, and Rafael Baylosis, the No. 2 man in the party. The arrests amounted to the single largest roundup of Communist rebels since Aquino came to power in 1986, and could create a crippling power vacuum within the N.P.A. -- at least for a while...
...reinforcements were sent after reports that U.S. citizens were harassed by Panamanian soldiers and the brief arrests of several American reporters during a police raid on opposition headquarters in a Panama City hotel...