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Article: Iran, Iraq Attack More Gulf Ships; 2 Die in Renewed `Tanker War'; Another U.S. Convoy Under Way
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- The Washington Post
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- September 4, 1987
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Iran and Iraq continued attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf
today, as the U.S. Navy began escorting a new convoy of Kuwaiti
tankers and the first deaths in the renewed "tanker war" were
confirmed.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards ambushed a Japanese oil tanker with
rocket-propelled grenades and fired bazookas at an Italian freighter
overnight, while Iraq announced that it had bombed a tanker and oil
rigs off Iran's coast.
There also were sharp reminders today that those who are at most
risk in the six-day-old flareup in fighting belong to an underclass
of sailors, mostly from impoverished parts of South and Southeast
Asia. The first fatalities in the fighting were a Sri Lankan and a ...