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Article: U.S. Moving Naval Force To Northern Persian Gulf;Support for Arab Allies Shown as Iranians Advance
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- The Washington Post
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- January 28, 1987
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The United States is sending five naval vessels northward in the
Persian Gulf and moving an aircraft carrier task force closer to that
strategic region to reassure friendly Arab states of U.S. support
following Iranian military advances against Iraq, administration
officials said yesterday.
The U.S. naval movements and accompanying political steps, which
Secretary of State George P. Shultz referred to in testimony before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were described by some
officials as an implicit warning to Iran against striking at Arab
nations across the Persian Gulf.
The Navy is moving its Middle Eastern task force of
guided-missile destroyers and frigates into the northern ...