Word: bridgehead
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Suddenly, a bridgehead became a blitzkrieg last week in the embattled Falkland Islands. Members of Britain's Parachute Regiment moved rapidly out of their hard-won corner of East Falkland near the settlement of Port San Carlos, taken by invasion only a week earlier, and descended 20 miles south near the settlement of Darwin. Using helicopters to hop across the 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...
...days before the offensive began, the Argentine air force had done its determined best to keep the British penned up in their expanding bridgehead. As the Port San Carlos landing area grew from a toehold on a rocky shore into a substantial area, Argentine pilots flew sortie after sortie against the warships and supply vessels that moved through narrow Falkland Sound, and the results at times were devastating for Britain's warships. As they have all along, the claims from London and Buenos Aires varied greatly about the course of the spectacular war of attrition offshore. Britain reported the loss...
...current Iranian offensive began on April 30, when Tehran's forces established a bridgehead west of the Karun River in Khuzistan province. Although the Iranians have successfully regained a large share of their lost territory since the beginning of the year (see map), they encountered strong Iraqi resistance last week. One reason is that the Iraqis this time have relied heavily on their air force, carrying out persistent strikes against the Iranians. Some diplomats believe that the unexpected strength shown by the Iraqi air force results from the presence of an estimated 60 Egyptian pilots now said...
After more than 2½ years of courting Khomeini, often at the cost of snubs and loss of face, the Soviets could be gaining the bridgehead in Iran that they have coveted for decades. The goal of the Soviets is to establish themselves so firmly that they can exercise a decisive influence on Iranian foreign policy or, in the case of a future political explosion in the country, install a puppet regime...
Bishop Dominic Tang was the pivotal man in the Vatican's hopes for a diplomatic bridgehead in Communist China. The government not only freed him from prison last year but recognized him as head of the Canton diocese. Tang later went to Rome, and Pope John Paul II named him permanent Archbishop of Canton. But Archbishop Tang had barely reached Hong Kong before Peking stripped him of office. China Daily complained that in receiving a papal appointment, Tang had violated the independence and dignity of the autonomous Chinese church. Now he is only a bishop-in-exile...