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May 3, 1988 | JOHN M. BRODER, Times Staff Writer
The Pentagon, facing stiff congressional opposition, Monday dropped its plan to dispatch six Coast Guard cutters to join the Navy fleet patrolling the Persian Gulf. "The Department of Defense is no longer considering sending Coast Guard vessels to the Persian Gulf at this time," the Pentagon said in a statement. At the same time, the White House announced that President Reagan will meet with Kuwait's prime minister and crown prince, Sheik Saad al Abdullah al Sabah, in July.
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April 23, 1988 | TYLER MARSHALL, Times Staff Writer
Like a battle-scarred whale, the Liberian-registered crude oil tanker Peconic plowed through the Persian Gulf's late-afternoon calm, once again on its way north to take on cargo. Some 25 miles northwest of this gulf trading center, the Peconic, its rusted, patched hull riding high in the water, had rejoined the flow of tankers that carry an estimated one-sixth of the world's oil, despite an increasingly lethal hit-and-run war against them. Following Monday's clashes between Iranian and U.S.
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April 24, 1988 | Associated Press
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday retrieved wreckage of an American helicopter allegedly shot down by Iranian forces in a showdown with the U.S. Navy, Tehran Radio reported. The broadcast, monitored in Nicosia, said naval units of the Revolutionary Guards found the wreckage in the Persian Gulf and brought it ashore. It said inspection proved the parts belonged "to the U.S. Cobra helicopter which was shot by the Iranian forces and crashed in the gulf" Monday. The U.S.
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September 24, 1989 | From Reuters
The United States is dismantling the last of its fortified barges in the Persian Gulf due to the diminished threat to shipping following a cease-fire in the Gulf War, a U.S. Navy spokesman said Saturday. The spokesman said the barge, known as Hercules, had been towed to Bahrain from Saudi Arabia and is being dismantled. The other barge, the Wimbrown 7, was withdrawn in December. The heavily armed barges were used as bases for U.S.
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April 24, 1988 | DON SHANNON, Times Staff Writer
President Reagan warned Iran on Saturday of "very costly" consequences unless it halts military and terrorist attacks in the Persian Gulf and ends its 7 1/2-year war with Iraq. "We do not seek to confront Iran," the President said in his weekly radio address. "However, its leaders must understand that continued military and terrorist attacks against non-belligerents and refusal to negotiate an end to the war will be very costly to Iran and its people."
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January 19, 1989 | From Associated Press
Kuwait has decided to withdraw six oil tankers from U.S. registration, "deflagging" the vessels and ending their right to American naval protection, Administration sources said Wednesday. The sources, who asked not to be named, said the United States has also agreed after extensive negotiations that the five ships that continue to fly the Stars and Stripes will have one year to comply with a law requiring that they sail with all-American crews.