The World - News from March 28, 1986

Iraq said its warplanes destroyed a 16-vessel Iranian military convoy. Iraqi communiques said seven Iranian cargo vessels and nine escorting gunboats were spotted heading toward the entrance to the Shatt al Arab waterway that forms the southern border between the two countries. Iraqi planes attacked, destroying the vessels “one after another, and sinking them in an air epic,” Baghdad radio said. Tehran television claimed that the supply ships got through to their destination--Iranian forces on Iraq’s Faw Peninsula.