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President Reagan, meantime, defended the U.S. attack on the ship as clearly "authorized by law" because the vessel was sowing mines in international waters...
WASHINGTON--U.S. military forces had shadowed the Iranian ship they attacked Monday night for days, waiting for conclusive evidence the vessel was laying underwater mines, Pentagon officials said yesterday...
...officials, who requested anonymity, said the vessel Iran Ajr had been tracked by radar and by air for several days as it steamed through the central gulf toward Bahrain "because it had been seen loading suspect devices" before leaving an Iranian port...
Reporters in a Pentagon press pool who were allowed to visit the Iranian vessel said there were three large gashes in the hull and deck and that it was pocketed by machine-gun fire and stained with blood. They quoted sources as saying it appeared the crew had destroyed documents before abandoning the ship...
Carson agonized over what material to use in constructing separate veins for the boys. Because brain sinuses are structurally different from veins elsewhere in the body, a vessel from the leg or another area would not do. Finally a colleague suggested a novel solution: using part of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart. "That was a fabulous idea," says Carson. "We knew we were going into the chest anyway. It was right there in front of us saying, 'Take...