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Reagan's blunt words came at the end of a week of intense debate about the Administration's plan to provide naval protection to Kuwaiti oil tankers traveling through the gulf. The proposal calls for eleven Kuwaiti vessels to be registered under the U.S. flag and manned by American captains. The Kuwaiti tankers will also receive U.S. naval escorts. The reflagging was initially scheduled to begin this week. But the Administration, caught between lawmakers demanding a greater say in the decision and military strategists trying to define how the Navy should react in case of attack, decided to delay implementation...
...later found to be unsubstantiated. The conviction was overturned because the agency employed illegal interrogation methods and lied about them to the military courts that originally tried Napso. Attorney General Yosef Harish has launched an investigation into these acts. The probe may result in criminal charges being leveled against eleven former and current Shin Bet agents. In the wake of the week's three adverse judgments, the Cabinet deliberated whether to begin its own probe, and Shamir pledged to increase supervision over all national security agencies...
...belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past ten years. Two weeks ago, an eight-year-old Jewish boy was found murdered near the West Bank settlement of Elon Moreh. Almost no one in Israel doubts that the deed was committed by a Palestinian...
More significantly, Reagan reasserted the American role in the Persian Gulf and in fact extended it. The Administration announced it had decided to fly the U.S. flag over eleven oil tankers belonging to Kuwait, an oil-rich Persian Gulf state whose ships have frequently been bombed by Iranian planes. The reflagged Kuwaiti tankers will be entitled to U.S. Navy protection...
...radio frequency that military aircraft are expected to monitor. There was no response. The Iraqi fighter was still closing in on the Stark. The ship sent a more demanding message 36 seconds after the first: "Unknown aircraft. This is U.S. Navy warship on your 076 for eleven miles. Identify yourself and state your intentions. Over...