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       DUBAI, United Arab Emirate's.
  Sept. 16-Iraq said its war planes
  iiiumed strikes on Iranian targets
  today, only hours after U.N. Sec-
  ietary 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 1,
  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
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  signaled a renewal'
  of the sea and land
  attacks t1tat marked
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  sought to find grounds for imple.
  menting a Security Council resolu-

  tion calling for a cease-fire in the
  long-running gulf confl'ict.
  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
  navaII target," the Iraqi tbrin for a
  ship, was' hit an hour later near 016
  Iranian coast. Later in the day
  Baghdad reported strikes'- on tki
  Iranian oilfields at Karang and
  BagOi-Malek. The, Iraq
                      ~s also said
  -Iran had continued shelling the Iraqi
  city of Basra.
                      Iran, W*h previously, ha§, con.
  ductM naval maneuvers, Mid the
  new, round would include speed.
  boats equipped "with all sorts of
  ligkand medium-weight weapons"
  and zwould involve regular troops
  and Revolutionary Guards. I
                      The announcement said thb ma-
  neuvers were designed to train for
  "inflicting blows on global alko.
  gance of the western powers that
  have amassed a large fleet, of war.
                      ii ship$ in the Persian Gulf and in them
  ()m A just outside the guX
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       French, mm- e sweepers began
  working Friday in wate'rs 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
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  Western diplomats in the area
  have said they expect a full-scale
  renewal of hostilities now that
  Perez de Cueflar'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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Missile Thought to Be Silkworm Sets Ship on Fire Off Kuwait
By Patrick H. Tyler
Washington Fast 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-
d T esday under U.S. Navy es-
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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.-flig 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 Kuwlit-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
wornis, were fired at Kuwaiti ter
See GULF, A34, Col. 4
n Attack on U.S.-owne(I tanker
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