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...today), the first successful act of Protestant proselytization in the New World, and a girl, Virginia Dare (Dare is the name of the county today), was born, the first British foal in this land. From 1587 to 1590 the English were tied up with King Philip's Spanish Armada, and the colony assumed far less importance. When an expedition at last arrived to check on the settlement, it found no one home...
Groans and cries broke the momentary stillness, then sirens, as an armada of 19 rescue vehicles raced to the gory scene. "It was absolute chaos," said Police Officer Ruth Hoffman. "People were running and screaming in every direction. They couldn't find their friends or family." Paramedics treated victims where they fell; plasma bottles were hung from car antennas. Two dozen youthful Guardian Angels, a self-described anti-crime patrol, dressed in T shirts and red berets, helped restore order...
...across the English Channel, an armada of shadows, only their lavender wing lights clearly visible in the thin moonlight. They took more than three hours to cross the Channel, then they dropped to 700 ft. to make their landing run. Suddenly they plunged into the turbulence of a thick bank of clouds. The pilots reflexively separated to avoid collision. As they emerged from the blinding clouds, sheets of flak began exploding all around them. Sergeant Louis Truax saw his plane's left wing hit, and then the paratroopers went sprawling. "One man dived out the door headfirst," he said...
...London was a kaleidoscope of uniforms: British, Commonwealth, French, Norwegian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, Polish and, of course, American. So many U.S. officers worked around Grosvenor Square that G.I.s walking through the area kept their arms raised in semipermanent salute. In the southern counties, near the coast from which the armada would sail, military convoys clogged the crooked lanes of the countryside; entire fields disappeared under swarms of tanks and trucks and piles of ammunition and fuel...
...Marines apparently was carried out by terrorists striking from portions of Lebanon occupied by Soviet-armed Syria. Unable to bring about a Syrian withdrawal by diplomatic pressure, the U.S. at year's end was trying to forge a closer alliance with Israel. In December, a U.S. naval armada off Lebanon sent carrier-based planes to strike Syrian antiaircraft batteries that had fired on an American reconnaissance flight; two planes were shot down...