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Missiles hit tanker after tanker as the Iran-Iraq war takes a new turn...
...Very dangerous, very worrying," declared an official in Bahrain. If anything, that was an understatement. In the Persian Gulf last week, no tanker was safe from missile fire as the 43-month-old war between Iran and Iraq took an alarming new direction. For months, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein had been threatening to attack any vessels using Iran's big oil-exporting facility at Kharg Island. The government of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini had vowed, in turn, that it would respond to such an attack by blockading the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth...
...threat, using five French-made Super Etendard fighter planes to fire at vessels carrying Iranian oil, including some owned by Saudi Arabia, an ally of Iraq's, and by other Arab states. Last week, for the first time, the Iranians began to retaliate by attacking Saudi and Kuwaiti tankers in the gulf. So far, half a dozen are known to have been damaged. None has yet been destroyed, though the Saudi supertanker Al Ahood has been ablaze since it was struck by Iraqi missiles two weeks ago. But on Saturday the Iraqis struck and sank a Greek-owned cargo...
...controversy centers on ships like the maroon-hulled Vulcanus I, a converted oil tanker, and its newer sister, Vulcanus II, which operate in the North Sea. Both of them are owned by Waste Management Inc., an Illinois-based disposal Goliath. Over the past decade, Vulcanus I has conducted test burns in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Vulcanus II was set to begin commercial operations in the gulf, where the ship's giant furnaces were to reduce thousands of tons of liquid poisons to harmless vapor. To broaden the burn program, the Maritime Administration backed...
...incredible international can of worms. Not only are facts in dispute, but you're dealing with French, American, Spanish, Liberian, West German, and Bermudian entities." The judge found that Amoco had been negligent "with respect to the design, operation, maintenance, repair and crew training" of the tanker. He also blamed the ship's Spanish builder, Astilleros Españoles, for the design and construction of the faulty steering gear...