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 Gulf War
 Attacks Follow End
 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,
 Sept. 16-Iraq said its war planes
 resumed strikes on Iranian targets
 today, only hours after U.N. Sec-
 retary General Javier Perez de
 Cuellar left Baghdad at the end of
 his four-day mission to the region.
 Iran, in turn, said its forces had
 attacked Iraqi naval targets in the
 northern Persian Gulf. It also an-
 nounced that it would hold a new
 round of maneuvers in the Gulf of
 Oman starting Thursday in the re-
 gion where French mine sweepers --
 already have begun operations. Iran
 also said Kurdish forces which it
 backs were holding their own
 against counterattacks in northern
 Iraq close to strategic oil pipeline
 facilities.
 The announcements signaled a
 renewal of the sea and land attacks
 that marked the weeks leading up
 to Perez de Cuellar's trip to Tehran
 and Baghdad, during which he
 The announcements _
 signaled a renewal'
 of the sea and land
 attacks that marked
 the weeks leading
 up to Perez de
 Cuellar's trio.
 sought to find grounds for imple-
 menting a Security Council resolu-
 tion calling for a cease-fire in the
 long-running gulf conflict.
 An Iraqi military communique,
 said that its planes struck the east-
 ern jetty of Iran's Kharg Island oil
 terminal at 3 a.m. and that-a "large
 naval target," the Iraqi term for a
 snip, was hit an hour later near the
 Iranian coast. Later in the day,
 Baghdad reported strikes on the
 Iranian oilfields at Karang and
 Baghi-Malek. The, Iraqis also said
 -Iran had continued shelling the Iraqi
 city of Basra. -
 Iran, which previously has con=
 ducted naval maneuvers, Said the
 new; round would include speed-
 boats equipped "with all sorts of
 light' and medium-weight weapons"
 and ;would involve regular troops
 and Revolutionary Guards.  ;
 The announcement said the ma-
 neuvers were designed to train for
 "inflicting blows on global arro-
 gance" of the western powers that
 have amassed a large fleet of war-
 ships in the Persian Gulf and in the
 1   .?Kuwai  tanker     rinceJ
 Y U.S.._ warsll~ps, teas re-
 Ahmadi oil to r:   after a quiet
 trip through the `
 French " mine sweepers began
 working Friday in waters off the
 United Arab Emirates' port of Fu-
 jayrah, where two ships have struck
 mines believed to have been laid by
 the Iranians. British mine sweepers
 also are believed to be close to the
 area.
 Western diplomats in the area
 have said they expect a full-scale
 renewal of hostilities now that
 Perez de Cuellar's mission is com-
 pleted. They also have expressed
 fears of the conflict spilling over to
 envelop western warships that
 might get caught up in the fighting
 by accident.
 In its version of today's military
 action, Tehran radio said tonight
 that Iran's Air Force had struck
 several Iraqi small naval craft in the
 northern gulf and also had hit coast-
 al artillery positions. .
 Most recent air activity in the .
 gulf conflict has involved the Iraqi
 Air Force, since Iran's air wing,
 mostly supplied by the United
 States during the days of the late
 shah, is grounded for lack of spare
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 OCTOBER 16, 1987
 Missile Thought to Be Silkworm Sets Ship on Fire Off Kuwait
 Prkes May Vary in Areas Outside
 Metropolitan Washington (See Box on A4)
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 ran Hits U.S.-Owned Tanker
 By Patrick E. Tyler
 Washington Post Foreign Service
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 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,
 Oct. 15-In its first successful mis-
 sile strike on Kuwaiti territory, Iran
 today blasted a 10-by-13-foot hole
 in  a  U.S.-owned  supertanker
 anchored off Kuwait's main oil port,
 setting the ship ablaze within sight
 of four other tankers that had ar-
 rived Tuesday under U.S. Navy es-
 cort.
 U.S. officials in the region and in
 Washington said they believed the
 Iranian missile was a Chinese-made
 Silkworm fired from Iranian-con-
 trolled territory on Iraq's Faw Pen-
 insula, about 50 miles to the north.
 Kuwait immediately protested
 the attack to the United Nations. A
 Kuwaiti Defense Ministry state-
 ment said, "Kuwait holds Iran re-
 sponsible for this act."
 The missile attack presented the
 Reagan administration with a new
 threat of escalation in the Persian
 Gulf, where U.S. forces last month
 took military action against Iran
 when a mine-laying vessel threat-
 ened another anchorage in the cen-
 tral gulf used by U.S.- flag oil tank-
 ers and warships.
 In addition, the missile struck a
 few miles from where the U.S.
 Navy was preparing to moor a sec-
 ond ocean-going barge rigged and
 armed as an offshore U.S. "fort"
 near Kuwait-which has not grant-
 ed U.S. basing facilities for aircraft
 or warships engaged in the protec-
 tion of Kuwaiti shipping.
 Three other long-range missiles,
 two of them identified as Silk-
 worms, were fired at Kuwaiti ter-
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