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...Prime Minister believed the Sinai should be demilitarized but that the three airfields the Israelis had built there should be kept by them for three to five years; afterward, one or perhaps two could be for civilian purposes, with Egypt in control but Israel retaining the right to use them. Turning one airfield into a U.S. airbase would be perfectly all right...
...Soviets, according to most Western analysts, the long-term goal is control of Middle East oil. In Afghanistan, they have built a new airfield in the corner of the country closest to the mouth of the Persian Gulf. In the Horn of Africa last week, Soviet-backed Ethiopia attacked its traditional enemy next door, Somalia, probably with the help of Cuban and East German advisers. If the Ethiopians should defeat Somalia, they and their
...boggy ground, the crack British troops confronted an Argentine garrison once estimated at about 600. There were reports of sharp fighting, and then the British Defense Ministry tersely announced that Her Majesty's troops had captured both Darwin and the neighboring settlement of Goose Green, site of an important airfield. Said Defense Ministry Spokesman Ian McDonald: "The Argentines suffered casualties, and some prisoners were taken." British casualties, said McDonald, were light...
British ships edging within 14 miles of the Falklands coast continued last week to shell the Port Stanley area and the airfield, which London said was "severely cratered." But the Argentines displayed a film showing C-130 Hercules aircraft taking off from the airstrip. The landing strip may have been useless for fighter aircraft, but it was apparently still accessible to the versatile transports...
...Gordon Sauter: "Viewers have become accustomed to not just instant but instantaneous coverage. And they, like our TV news people, are frustrated because it's just not available." Occasionally the British shipboard correspondents were heard on TV describing some action like the bombing of the Port Stanley airfield, but the only illustration the networks could provide was a photo of the man who was speaking. It was almost as if the world were back in 1932, when people at home sat around ancient Atwater Kent radios to hear the news...