The World - News from Jan. 9, 1985

Iraq said its jet fighters attacked three “naval targets” in the Persian Gulf. Two of the attacks were not confirmed, but a South Korean freighter, the 11,367-ton Hanlim Mariner, radioed that it was hit by a missile and that two of its crewmen were badly hurt. The vessel later dropped anchor off the Iranian coast. It was the 67th confirmed attack by either side in the so-called tanker war, an outgrowth of the 51-month-old Iran-Iraq war.