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MANAMA, Bahrain--An Iranian speedboat shot up a Saudi Arabian-owned tanker in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, hours after President Reagan said the U.S. Navy will no longer ignore attacks on noncombatants in the Persian Gulf region...
...Iranians have twice received a taste of American sea power. On Sept. 21, U.S. helicopter gunships opened fire on an Iranian navy ship, the Iran Ajr, when it was caught laying mines; five Iranians were killed. Two weeks ago an unarmed U.S. helicopter was fired upon from Iranian speedboats. Backup helicopters responded, sinking one speedboat and disabling two others; at least two, and perhaps more, Iranian Revolutionary Guards died in the assault...
...crews spotted ten Iranians drifting in rubber rafts. Sixteen others, including four wounded sailors, were in the water, clinging to flotsam or still swimming. All were picked up. The survivors claimed that two of their crewmen were missing and that one had sped off in a motorized "Zodiac" speedboat. The Iran Ajr's captain, who spoke English, was among the wounded...
...tanker Alvand at Sirri Island as the ship was being loaded with Iranian oil. In the central gulf, they attacked an oil-loading facility on the island of Lavan. In the north they bombed and strafed the island of Farsi, used by Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a base for speedboat assaults against gulf shipping. Said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after the first wave of air raids: "From now on we will strike them on the sea and destroy all the economic arteries that finance their aggression...
...Shifting winds made the first something of a lottery, and the second was waged in the heavier breezes that Stars & Stripes candidly preferred. But in the third race, just one upwind leg in moderate Kookaburra weather told Murray his fate. Near the dismal end of that afternoon, a rubber speedboat pulled up alongside the Kook captain. " 'You've got a bomb on board,' they said. 'What do you want to do?' Our immediate response was, 'What's the bad news?' Then we thought, 'Here's our chance to find out if there's life after 12-meter racing.' " The bomb...