The World - News from Feb. 19, 1985
The Kuwaiti container ship Al Manakh was hit by an Iranian missile in the Persian Gulf, its owners said. Lloyd’s Shipping Intelligence in London said the 32,500-ton vessel was on fire about 90 miles north of the United Arab Emirates. The attack was the first blamed on Iran in the Persian Gulf this year and occurred farther south than any of the previous strikes in the so-called tanker war between Iran and Iraq.
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