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...could not be learned whether Secretary of State George P. Shultz personally discussed the aid with Bolkiah on June 24 when they met at the sultan's 1700 room-marble and glass palace on a hilltop in Brunei's capital, Bandar Seri Begawan...
Even as the tales of covert diplomacy continued to emanate from Washington, Tehran and elsewhere, the debilitating and indecisive six-year-old war between Iran and Iraq dragged on. Twice last week Iraqi warplanes struck deep into Iran, hitting first a petrochemical complex at the port of Bandar Khomeini and then an oil refinery and a power station in Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head...
...union related the story of an October voyage as told by a sailor who asked not to be identified. He said that around Oct. 17 the coaster Morso picked up 26 containers full of ammunition in the Israeli port of Eilat and delivered them to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. "We all knew there was ammunition on board," said the sailor, but Israeli authorities in Eilat took care to let no one else know. "The Israeli harbor authorities," the sailor added, "told us to take off all markings that could show we had been in Israel, including the markings...
Even so, the Saudis made it clear that they had fired their missiles more in sorrow than in anger. Said Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.: "Our sovereignty was violated and we reacted, as we said we would all along, in a defensive manner. We think it is a pity we had to be dragged into this conflict...
...Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the U.S.: "Watching this recent campaign has made me a born-again monarchist...