Word: suez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader issued a statement denouncing his own state radio for applauding the unidentified terrorists who had planted mines in the Red Sea. Radio Tehran had lavishly praised that action, declaring: "All the arrogant powers are helpless, unable to save the dozens of ships facing destruction in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea every day . . . Now Washington, Paris and London will not be able to find a secure place to stand in pursuing their scornful goals...
...Persian Gulf. But Khomeini's remarks did nothing to resolve the mystery of the Red Sea mines. By last week at least 15 ships had experienced some sort of explosion as they plied the waters of the Red Sea on their way to or from the Suez Canal (see map), and there no longer seemed to be any doubt that sabotage was involved. Perplexed by the implicit threat to shipping in the Suez Canal, which his country controls, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appealed to the U.S., Britain and France for help, not only to clear the threatened shipping lanes...
...unconfirmed report broadcast last week by the clandestine Radio Free Lebanon claimed that a group called the Islamic Jihad Movement had planted 190 mines in the Gulf of Suez. In Washington, one perplexed Pentagon official summed up the confusion when he declared, "Until we know what it is, we won't know how to deal with...
...they said the boycott would kill the Games. Evidently not. No boycott has done real damage; not the U.S. boycott in 1980 or that of the Africans in 1976 or of some Arab states in 1956 in response to the crisis over Suez. As for this year of Soviet revenge, not only are more nations than ever sending delegations, but people are saying that the Games may be better off without an East-West brawl. Quieter countries will get a chance to strut...
...trouble to try to understand its Moslem neighbors rather than blindly hate them, it could learn an important lesson." On many levels, Israel knows its Moslem neighbors only too well it has met them on the battlefield in four bloody wars, all, with the possible exception of the 1956 Suez conflict, unhated by the Arabs. In addition, over 60 per cent of Israel's Jewish citizens, many of them fluent in Arabic, immigrated, often at gunpoint, or are the descendants of immigrants from Arab lands where they were subjected to centuries of discrimination and sometimes outright persecution unmatched even...