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MIM NOTES / This item is <abridged>.
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| xx xx x xx xx xx x x x x x x Issue #32 |
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| x x x x x x x x x x x x 08/13/87 |
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| Newspaper of the Maoist Internationalist Movement |
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World War III continues
U.S. buildup in Gulf largest since Vietnam
World War III continued with last Saturday╤s attack of
U.S. Navy F-14 jets on Iranian F-4 fighter-bombers, which the
United States built. The U.S. fired at least two Sparrow
missiles, but there were no hits or further hostilities
reported.
Contrary to what most major papers implied, the Iranian
planes were not preparing to attack a U.S. surveillance
plane. The Iranians did not have their targeting radars on.
(NYT, 8/12/87, p. 3, second to last inch in story) Instead,
the U.S. activated its Θshoot firstΣ policy because Θthe
speed of the Iranian planes, their low altitude, their
direction of flight and their refusal to acknowledge warnings
from ships and aircraft all indicated possible hostile
intent.Σ (Ibid.)
The P-3 Orion surveillance (spy) planes that the fighters
rushed to protect do not usually perform duty in the Gulf.
They may have attracted Iranian attention.
The U.S. military has made many unusual arrangements for
various kinds of aggressions in the Gulf. In fact, the U.S.
military buildup in the Persian Gulf and now the Gulf of Oman
is the largest U.S. military buildup since the Vietnam War.
ΘBy early September, the military expects to have about 31
ships and smaller vessels and more than 25,000 military
personnel on duty in and near the gulf.Σ (Ann Arbor News,
Molly Moore, ΘU.S. combat buildup in gulf becomes largest
since Vietnam,Σ p. C1) That force will be slightly larger
than forces assembled during the Iranian hostage crisis and
the bombing attack against Libya last year.
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