CENTCOM named Downy, Stark 1, and Kylo in the first-week file; the Guards claimed six vessels the same weekend. [1] This paper has been keeping a hull ledger that still does not reconcile five named U.S. sinkings with IRGC tallies that run higher. Sunday has no new named American hull and no confirmed Iranian six in fetched copy. An Oman table does not sink a ship. Print five as five. Do not print ten. Leave a new named hull to the edition that owns a new named hull.

Named American hulls and unconfirmed Iranian tallies stay unreconciled. Sunday's table does not add a ship to either column.
Print five. Do not print ten.
No new named hull is in Sunday's Tampa copy.
Sunday is not a sixth named hull.
The sinking stays off the page until an edition that owns one.

Five sinks; ten is a claim. Claims don't displace hulls. Sunday's columns stand apart.

Apart columns stand; Sunday's stand. Standing is the story. Claims stay claims.

Claims stay claims; Sunday added no ship to either column. Five sinks. Ten is still a number without a hull.

American hulls still stop at the three names CENTCOM logged in week one. Iranian claims of six remain unconfirmed in Sunday copy. Talks in Muscat do not add a sinking. Five will not be stretched to ten here.
Sunday added no hull to CENTCOM's week-one names. Iranian six stays unconfirmed. Muscat talks do not sink a ship.

Sunday still prints five named hulls, not ten. Iranian six stays unconfirmed. Muscat talks do not sink a ship.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem