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...took a more ominous turn: it singled out oil, the mainstay of both countries' economies. Iranian naval vessels shelled oil terminals at Fao island, and the Phantoms returned to bomb and rocket Basra's vast new petrochemical complex. Twenty-nine people were killed in that raid, some of them Britons, Americans and other foreign workers among a labor force of thousands. The foreigners and their families fled in cars and buses to the Kuwait border 15 miles away. "It all happened so fast," said Briton Roger Elliott. "I was just sitting there getting my truck started when...
...training in 1978. In addition, each of the hundreds of mosques in Tehran was required to deliver 22 militiamen to fight Yazid, a term used for the murderers of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who is venerated by Shi'ites as a saint and martyr. Whenever air raid sirens wailed, thousands of Teh-ranis rushed to their rooftops shouting "God is great." Enthusiastic civilians almost shot down an Iranian F-4 trying to land at Mehrabad: they thought it was an Iraqi plane. Opposition parties like the left-wing Socialist People's Mujahidin and the Marxist People...
...capital is OPEC's administrative headquarters, but no meeting of oil ministers had been held there since December 1975, when pro-Palestinian terrorists kidnaped some of the delegates and held them hostage. Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the principal target of the 1975 raid, was taking no chances on a repeat performance. First he sent his private plane to Vienna's Schwechat Airport, and then let rumors circulate that he would arrive on Monday. In fact, he showed up in another plane on Sunday night. During the meeting, he was constantly surrounded...
...first said that it was for reasons of safety. Then he conceded: "Perhaps saving the President from political embarrassment did have something to do with it." Chip could have been held for questioning by law officers if he had been in the immediate area at the time of the raid, especially because of his chat in the bar with some of the suspects and his plans to charter the boat...
...raid went off as scheduled: shortly after midnight on July 21, the Two-Too Much unloaded 1,000 kilos of marijuana into the Foxy Lady and more into three much faster boats. The boats sped to shore and crept through inlets to some old docks. When the marijuana was transferred to three trucks, the circling planes switched on their spotlights, while law enforcement officials moved in. Not a shot was fired as they arrested 18 people, ages 20 to 34, and confiscated the marijuana, the Two-Too Much, three smaller boats, seven cars and trucks and 16 weapons, including pistols...