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...Greek freighter Antigoni was steaming through the Persian Gulf toward the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini when members of the crew saw a silver streak glinting above the waves. The next instant, a missile slammed into the ship's stern about 5 ft. above the water line, and the 15 crewmen scrambled into the lifeboat. "We were 500 meters away when there was a second explosion," said First Mate George Galakopoulos. "It cut the ship in two. There was so much smoke I couldn't see anything." The crew was saved, but the Antigoni and its cargo...
Iraq began putting new pressure on Iran in October, when the Baghdad government took delivery from France of five Exocet-equipped Super Etendard fighter-bombers. The Iraqis then said they had mined approaches to Bandar-Khomeini. Iraq also threatened to bomb a nearby petrochemical plant, as well as an Iranian oil-exporting facility in the gulf. In an attempt to cut off Iran's vital resources, the Iraqis have fired on numerous other foreign freighters in recent weeks...
Baghdad admitted that it had used long-range missiles against Iranian cities, and an Iraqi military spokesman said the "crushing strikes" would continue as long as Iran persisted in its attacks. Iraqi officials also said they had launched floating mines in the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini in the western end of the gulf. They renewed their threat to destroy the huge Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island if Iran continued its blockade of Iraq's oil exports through the gulf. In addition, Iraq warned Japan that a large petrochemical complex under construction by a Japanese firm at Bandar...
...handsome six-footer, Bandar could be a Saudi prince straight from central casting. He is equally comfortable in traditional Bedouin robes and in tailored English suits. Born to power and wealth, Bandar tried to establish his own identity by pursuing a career in which his father's position would not be a factor in his success. "When I am flying at 50 feet upside down in a supersonic jet," he says, "it's me and not my father. The jet doesn't give a damn...
...Bandar learned his fluent and colloquial American English during the past ten years, when he attended U.S. military schools. After graduating in 1968 from Britain's Royal Air Force College at Cranwell, he took advanced fighter training at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, S.C., and earned a parachutist's badge at Fort Benning, Ga. Bandar became an instructor pilot at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, and finally went on to Maxwell. Along the way he earned a master's degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins University...