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Meanwhile, British Royal Marine commandos, backed by 7.8-ton Scorpion tanks, which move with relative ease through swampy areas, had begun their own breakout from the beachhead. Traveling eastward from Port San Carlos, they were moving along roads that were no more than rutted tracks toward the Falklands capital of Port Stanley, 50 miles away. Their aim: to launch an attack on some 7,500 troops dug in around the settlement, the bulk of the force that precipitated the South Atlantic crisis with their own invasion of the bleak islands on April...
...must lurk Inside, books litter the office, covering the walls and scattered about the floor Stacks of folders stand four feet high on top of the desk, propped up against a bookshelf. Papers seen to crawl out of every available crack This tiny room has become the lonely beachhead of radical economics at Harvard It is the office of Stephen A Marglin...
...building a new factory was between $60 and $80 per bbl. of annual productive capacity, but the Schlitz plant was only $25 per bbl. Expansion by acquisition was not new to Stroh. The company bought the F. & M. Schaefer Corp. of New York in 1981, giving it a beachhead in Eastern markets. On March 29, Stroh announced its intention of buying huge chunks of Schlitz stock, seeking two-thirds of it, or 19.7 million shares, at $16 each, for a total offer of $315.8 million...
Vessey, whom Reagan called "a soldier's soldier," was a 21-year-old sergeant when he won a battlefield commission for his heroics on the Anzio beachhead in Italy in 1944. Described by colleagues as "cool," "articulate," "meticulous" and possessing "a fantastic memory," he was executive officer of the 25th Infantry Division Artillery during combat in Viet Nam. "It's good to have a guy in there who has been shot at," said one officer in praise of Vessey's selection. Instead of pouting over the snub from Carter, Vessey has served loyally as Army Vice Chief...
From that beachhead, the Democrats are launching a wide-ranging counterattack to win both public and congressional support for their own tax plan. They are wooing two dozen moderate Northeastern Republicans considered "soft" in their support for the Administration's tax package, as well as 47 conservative Southern Democrats known as the "Boll Weevils," many of whom voted for Reagan's budget last month. A campaign-style "boiler room" has been set up so that members of Congress and their staffs can telephone constituents in 20 key Southern districts and urge them to persuade their lawmakers to vote...