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...Rican refugee camps. Critics joked that the "zero" in his title stood for the number of battles he had fought. After taking San Juan del Norte, the bearded commander could finally add some bite to his bluster. As Pastora told TIME, "San Juan del Norte means more than a beachhead to us. It represents the weapons that will now come to us because we have convinced many democratic governments that ARDE is on the road to victory." The retaking of the town by the Sandinistas did not faze Pastora, since he never believed he could hold on to the territory...
...court appeared to soften its traditional stance by upholding a Minnesota statute that allows parents to take tax deductions for education costs at a church-affiliated private school. The action gave new heart to the Reagan Administration. Said U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee: "It's an important new beachhead." The Minnesota statute authorizes deductions of $500 to $700 spent by parents on "tuition, textbooks and transportation" for any child in grade or high school. By a 5-to-4 vote, the court found Minnesota's plan crucially different from other tax programs that had been ruled unconstitutional because...
...falling prices have made such pagers or beepers cheaper and easier to use. In contrast to the unwieldy $340 versions of a decade ago, 1983 models slide into a pocket and cost less than $100. Manufacturers who once concentrated on serving business clients are now rushing to establish a beachhead in the consumer market...
British radar failed to spot the low-flying Argentines. The Rapier surface-to-air missiles that British ground forces had used with great success at the Port San Carlos beachhead were already ashore at Fitzroy, but they had not yet been set up on hillsides overlooking the estuary. Although both ships would have been unloaded in another hour or so, at the time of the attack the Sir Galahad was still packed with most of its full complement of 68 crewmen and, according to some accounts, as many as 500 troops waiting to go ashore. Those on board...
...hours later, Mirages attacked and sank a small British landing craft in Choiseul Sound; London said that four men died and two were wounded. Another wave of Argentine aircraft swept toward the Port San Carlos beachhead. They hit the 2,800-ton frigate H.M.S. Plymouth, one of the older vessels of its type in the 40-ship British task force. The Argentines claimed that the Plymouth exploded, but the British Defense Ministry insisted that while the ship had been damaged, it was still in service. According to the British, five men were wounded. The British said they shot down seven...