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Article: U.S. CHASES OFF 2 DHOWS, IRAN WARSHIP.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- August 25, 1987
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Byline: Combined wire services
The U.S. Navy fired the first shots of its Persian Gulf tanker escort mission Monday - machine-gun bursts across the bows of two small wooden sailing boats - as it brought four reregistered Kuwaiti tankers out of the gulf.
The firing on the unidentified sailing boats was one of two encounters Monday involving the Navy flotilla. In the other incident, an Iranian warship, ignoring radio warnings, came to within 2 1/2 miles of the convoy but turned away after the American forces made radio contact.
The guided missile destroyer USS Kidd fired machine-gun bursts across the bows of two small dhows Monday morning when the ...