The World - News from Sept. 21, 1987

The 21-member Arab League, which had been pressing Tehran to accept a U.N. cease-fire by Sept. 20, agreed unanimously to defer action and scheduled a Nov. 8 summit meeting in which Arab leaders are to discuss the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq War. The decision, at a closed-door session in Tunis, Tunisia, followed reports of new attacks on gulf shipping. Iraq said its warplanes raided a ship off Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal in the northern Persian Gulf after Iranians in a speedboat sprayed machine-gun fire at a Saudi Arabian tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. It was Iran’s first attack on shipping in 10 days.