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Many regulations for transporting dangerous materials have been born of disasters. In 1978, 23 cars of a slow-moving Louisville and Nashville train derailed in Waverly, Tenn. A day later, a tanker containing propane exploded, killing 16 railroad workers, Government officials and bystanders, and injuring 30 others. Investigators learned that a railroad wheel had broken and had sent the cars off the track. Later, the Government banned that type of wheel from use on trains carrying hazardous materials...
...image was grimly familiar: a fighter flashing across the morning sky over the azure waters of the Persian Gulf and firing an Exocet missile into a neutral ship. After a 22-day lull in the Iran-Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure...
...region. In the third hijacking involving Iranians since June, two young opponents of the Khomeini regime commandeered an Iran Air jetliner and ordered it flown to Cairo and Rome, where they gave themselves up. In the gulf, after a respite of about four weeks, the Iraqis resumed the tanker war by hitting a Greek ship with an Exocet missile. As in the case of the explosions in the Red Sea, the renewed fighting served as a reminder to the world that the region's belligerents do not hesitate to draw outsiders into their conflicts. -By William E. Smith. Reported...
...Iran might launch air attacks against Kuwaiti oil refineries, loading facilities and desalination plants. Other gulf Arab countries have similar fears. As a result, billions of dollars of American, British and French weapons have been flowing into the area. Underlining the climate of uncertainty in the gulf, the British tanker Renown was struck last week by Iranian air-launched missiles. Ironically, Renown had been steaming to unload Iranian oil from another stricken tanker, hit by Iraqi missiles the week before...
Iranian pilots have been careful to target only tankers that have come from ports in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, two nations that have contributed generously to the Iraqi war chest. But after at least one of their planes was shot down last month by U.S.-made F-15s of the Saudi air force, the Iranians avoided attacking any vessels in a stretch of water from Kuwait to the tip of Qatar, an area that is watched by U.S. AWACS planes leased to the Saudis. Last week's strike on the Primrose came about 120 miles east of that zone...