European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes g air Force investigating pressured wives Page 3 d Vessey says Vietnam agrees to seek mias Page 7 d Blue jays Widen Al East Lead sports Page 21  un5mici�l Pili cation vol. 46, no. 117 thursday August 13, 19b7 2nd Tanker Convoy completes Gulf trip Kuwait a three kuwaiti ships Lefi their s escorts and entered Home Walers tuesday. The kuwaiti Tawrs flying american nags Arenow in Kuwait territorial Waters and under escort by kuwaiti ships defense department spokesman Rob Ert Sims said in  said they had left the four . Navy warships guarding them and headed for Kuwait s main Aiah Madi oif terminal to take on  of the 46,723-Lon Gas King the 81,283-ton sea Isle City and the 79,999-ton Ocean City ended the second Navy escorted trip up the Gulf. Meanwhile helicopters swept an Anchorage South of he Strait of horus in the Gulf of Oman witnesses at the crowded Anchorage Offu Jamirah a United Ara emirates port in the Gulf of Oman said four . And omani helicopters were involved an american operated supertanker the 274 j347-Tontexaco Caribbean was damaged there monday by a nine and four More mines were found tuesday. One mine spotted by an omani helicopter was about 100 Yards from an anchored Tanker and two others were in the Vicinity a shipping source said. There a Little bit of panic among Tanker Crews atthe Anchorage the source said. Another added it s a bad situation. The other tankers Are now afraid to move.". Fuia inh s Anchorage is one of the main Points for transferring Oil from one Tanker to another. Up to so vessels Are there on any Given Day. An added current use of the Anchorage is As a staging Point for convoys of . Warships and empty Kuwait tankers for the 550-mile trip through the Strait of Hor Muz and up the Gulf to  of Kuwait s 21 tankers Are being registered As american ships so the Navy can protect them. Kuwait also Charters tankers lying the soviet and British hags. Iran has been accused of laying mines in and around the persian Gulf. Iranian leaders have said they Are planted by invisible hands but also that the Gulf will remain full of mines until the superpowers leave the  s ambassador to the United nations said a Jaie Khorasani said his country would cooperate . Peace efforts in the Gulf but added that Tehran was neither accepting nor rejecting a Security coun cil Resolution calling for an end to the Iran Iraq , Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar earlier said Iraq had accepted the Resolution. Tehran radio quoted Hashemi a Sfanjani speaker of Iran s parliament As saying the iranian Navy would be sent to the Gulf of Oman to Clear mines but there was no  said it would Send four minesweepers and a support ship to the Gulf but said they would operate Only Between Hormuz and Bahrain in the Central part of the  said it would Send two minesweepers and two support vessels. Both countries and the soviet Union have warships in and near the persian Gulf. 08693 a missiles fired As iranian Jet ignored order Washington a a while House spokesman refused to confirm thai a Navy of a fighter fired two missiles at an iranian f-4 Phan Tom Over the Strait of Hormuz on saturday Bui said president Reagan was in formed soon after the incident  Pentagon sources however speaking on condition they not be named tuesday said the Inci Dent occurred after the iranian plane repeatedly ignored a radio order to change course. They said the f-4 was one of several iranian jets monitored by radar As they took off from an iranian naval base. An Aegis Cruiser the Valley Force and a Navyp-3 Orion surveillance plane irad Ted the iranian Jet and the confrontation occurred when the iranian Jet began flying directly toward the unarmed Orion they said and an f-14 fired two Sparrow missiles at the iranian Jet which banked hard and managed to evade both or them. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in meeting with reporters refused to discuss the incident on tuesday and presidential spokes Man Marlin Fitzwater said at this Point i will not confirm any part of the incident.1 he did say Reagan had been informed of the incident and when asked what incident re plied the incident that i m not  soviets deploy Romb blast in Green roil mounted missile system Moscow up soviet  Vik Tor Karpov sail tuesday that the Viet Union has deployed a mole strategic nut lbs missile system that can be launched from rail a cars and that the new weapon guarantees the Mill Les would survive a first strike by the aisted state Karpov told a no conf Ace the rail mounted missiles constitute  system but he de Nied . Claims thache i is " violate the 1979 claimed by terror Salt ii arms Limi iat the treaty which h . 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