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Later in the week, however, the British Defense Ministry announced that a frigate had attacked an Argentine supply vessel in the sound. When the frigate fired its 4.5-in. guns, British officials said, there was a huge explosion, leading to speculation that the vessel might have been an oil tanker. In Buenos Aires, military spokesmen flatly denied the account, but late in the week the Argentines said that they had lost radio contact with a supply vessel on transportation duty in the Falklands...
...party around the Caribbean; one was hauling junketing Congressmen to the Middle East and Africa; one was slated to take other Congressmen and their wives to the Caribbean area, and the fifth was down for repairs. So Haig was assigned to a back-up C-135B, a converted tanker plane with no windows...
...swallow $144.3 million in development costs for the DC-9 Super 80 at a time when it sold only twelve DC-10s, and warned in September that it might have to stop production of wide-bodied DC-10s if the Air Force canceled orders for a military tanker version...
...Forrestal opposed the creation of a Jewish state in the coldest days of the cold war, partly because he feared that Israel and America's commitment to it would hamper the twin strategic tasks of keeping Joseph Stalin at bay and keeping the peace in the oilfields and tanker lanes. Truman overruled Forrestal-but for reasons of right, not might. He was under no illusion that Israel was, or ought to be, a military ally or that the U.S. was fostering an anti-Soviet "consensus" in the area. Arab hostility toward Israel, combined with Arab resentment...
Once aloft, Moezi veered from the flight plan he had filed and headed west. The plane was actually over Turkey when it was caught by three Iranian Phantom jets. The fighter pilots radioed threats to shoot down the tanker but did not fire. One likely explanation: the fighter pilots' great respect for Moezi himself. Says Rajavi: "Had it been any other pilot than Moezi, we would have died...