Wednesday, September 2, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 World and Nation Iraq reports air attacks as Iran retaliates with raids in gulf war MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Ira nian speedboats attacked two tank ers Tuesday in the Persian Gulf, shipping sources said, and Iraq said its planes hit four ships and Iranian industrial targets. Iran claimed it shot down three raiding aircraft. A convoy of U.S. Navy warships and two reflagged Kuwaiti tankers arrived safely in the emirate’s wa ters. Kuwait and Iraq, which has been at war with Iran since Septem ber 1980, are neighbors at the head of the Persian Gulf. The ships started up the gulf Sat urday, the day after raids were re newed in the waterway after a six- week lull. The only incident re ported during the 550-mile trip was the rescue of a downed Iraqi pilot. In London, meanwhile, Britain warned Iraq strongly to stop attack ing ships in the gulf and said Iraqi military actions were not in keeping with Baghdad’s acceptance of United Nations moves to end the Iran-Iraq war. Breakup ends after couple weds again DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — After 27 years apart, Bob and Jean Loydon are newlyweds again. “I know God has a definite plan,” Bob Loydon, a registered nurse at Delray Community Hos pital, said Monday. ‘‘He had us walk the paths, but we’ve come full circle and we have the family back again.” Their son, Fred, helped his mother find her husband years af ter their separation. Loydon, 59, blamed liquor for destroying his two-year marriage to Jean in I960. Jean, 57, agreed. His drinking, she said, “was like watching some one you love walking down the railroad track with a train coming and there’s nothing you can do.” After they split up, Loydon’s Navy career slid downhill. He re married and fathered two more children, but that relationship broke up as well. “I either wanted to die or wanted somebody to get me well,” he said. He joined Alcoholics Anonymous, earned his nursing degree and moved to Florida in 1983. He wondered what had hap pened to Jean and their two chil dren. As it turned out, they also were curious about him. Fred “and I would spend hours talking about his father,” said Jean, who had also remarried. “Fred had ‘teen-age problems,’ and felt if he could get in touch with his real father, he could help him get over them,” she said. Fred Loydon, 28, a Houston res taurant worker, said, “I didn’t want to find him in a graveyard somewhere.” They started looking for Loy don. In April 1987, a cousin who was a California police officer tra ced Bob’s license plate to Florida. They found his telephone number through directory assistance. The family got in touch, and in one letter, Loydon speculated on what might have happened in his life if he never dranlt. His former wife wrote: “We’d still be married.” During the Fourth of July holi day, he flew to her Houston home with an engagement ring and they remarried on Aug. 10 despite the objections of their children, who said they needed a courtship. “I said ... we don’t have to,” Jean said. “We know.’ ” On Tuesday night, an Iranian speedboat fired a rocket that struck tne South Korean tanker Astro Pe gasus, which was about 40 miles off Dubai, United Arab Emirates, en route from Jubail to Singapore with a shipment of Saudi petroleum products, gulf shipping sources said. There were no casualties in the at tack about 10:45 p.m. (1:45 p.m. GST), the sources said. No assistance was required. Earlier, radio monitors said the 300,078-ton Spanish supertanker Munguia sent a distress signal when attacked by one or two Iranian speedboats 55 miles northeast of Bahrain, an island emirate in the central gulf. At least two shoulder-fired rock ets hit the ship, causing no casualties but starting a fire in the engine room, according to later reports. Crewmen put out the fire and the tanker continued down the gulf loaded with 2,100,000 barrels of Saudi crude, according to the radio reports and Spanish officials. The attacks were the second and third reports in two days from Ira nian speedboats in apparent retalia tion for Iraq’s renewed air raids. On Monday, gunfire from a speedboat raked a Kuwaiti container ship off the United Arab Emirates in the southern gulf. No casualties were re ported. Iraq reported air raids Tuesday on four ships in the gulf and five in dustrial and oil targets in its air war on Iran’s economy. Iran reported retaliatory raids on military and industrial targets in Iraq. In Washington, the State Depart ment said the U.N. Security Council should draft sanctions unless Iran agrees to a cease-fire by the end of the week. Soviet officials urged that diplo macy be given more time. Iran’s news agency quoted Prime Minister Hussein Musavi as saying Anti-government students fight police in South Korea SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —Uni versities reopened for the fall term Tuesday and immediately became battlegrounds for police and anti- ? ;overnment students. One campus ight with rocks, firebombs and tear gas lasted three hours. As students demanded the ouster of President Chun Doo-hwan, lead ers of the government party and the opposition worked on a timetable for a presidential election and peace ful transition when Chun’s term ends in February. Labor unrest that began in July continued to cripple the export- based economy, and hundreds of strikes for higher pay were in pro gress Tuesday. Prime Minister Kim Chung-yul said workers had been short-changed in South Korea’s eco nomic boom and the government would seek greater benefits for them. South Korea’s trade surplus in August was only one-quarter of the total for August 1986, the govern ment reported. Fighting between protesters and riot squads began on the huge Seoul National University campus after a rally by 4,000 students. Police Fired tear gas and charged behind shields during the three-hour battle. Students hurled stones and threw firebombs that exploded in orange showers of blazing gasoline, shout ing “Let’s finish the military dictatorship!” and “Down with the murder regime!” The South Korean news agency Yonhap said about 10,000 students in all demonstrated at 19 other schools across the country. It did not say whether those protests were vio lent. Radical student leaders have vowed to topple Chun’s government and the size of the Seoul National University rally indicated strong support. Students traditionally are in the vanguard of protest in South Korea. They led weeks of demonstrations that caused Chun to agree June 30 to opposition demands for direct Jewish leaders tell pope of anger felt over meeting with Waldheim CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Jewish leaders on Tuesday told Pope John Paul II of their anger over his audience with Kurt Waldheim and the Vatican said it would issue a major document on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. The Jewish representatives termed their historic meeting with the pope a success, although the pontiff did not directly respond to their anger over his June 25 audience with the Austrian president, alleged to have been involved with deporting Jews during World War II. The pope also did not respond to the Jews’ questions on the Vatican’s lack of diplomatic relations with Israel. The Waldheim issue was taken up in detail in talks between the Jewish delegation and Vatican officials in the past two days. “This encounter was a historic one in a very positive way,” Henry Siegman of the American Jewish Congress said. Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, chairman of the Interna tional Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consulta tions, said after the papal audience that the relationship between Jews and the Vatican was raised “to a new pla teau.” A joint communique said the Vatican delegation in the meetings Monday and Tuesday defended the audi ence with Waldheim but acknowledged that the church understood Jewish concerns over the meeting with the Austrian president. Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, part of the nine-member delegation that met with the pope at his summer resi dence near Rome, said, “We agreed where necessary to disagree agreeably.” The representatives, including two wearing yar- mulkes, sat in a semicircle around the white-robed pon tiff, who greeted them with the traditional Hebrew greeting “Shalom,” which means peace. The talks were in English. The controversy over the pope’s meeting with Wald heim had threatened to disrupt the pope’s 10-day visit to the United States that begins next week, including a planned boycott in Miami on Sept. 11. But the Jewish representatives said after Tuesday’s meeting that mainstream leaders planned to attend tne Miami ceremony and other interfaith gatherings. 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