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...real measure of the psychic hurt came in a hundred cocktail parties and reception lines from Canberra to Warsaw, where Moscow's diplomats, military attachés and KGB operatives went to work after a few belts of Stolichnaya vodka. Arabs can't be trusted to do anything right, the Soviets told other customers for their military hardware. In the air and on the ground, the Syrians were "incompetent and cowardly," the Soviets complained. The SAMS are mobile missiles. So what did the Syrians do? They left them in one place, rooted like oaks, and the Israelis knocked...
Meanwhile, top priority for British antisubmarine aircraft and frigates last week was to locate Argentina's diesel-powered Santiago del Estero. The World War II sub, built by the U.S., has a 12,000-mile range and poses an unnerving threat to the liners Canberra...
...British government had earlier taken over two passenger liners of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (commonly known as the P. & O. line), the 16,907-ton Uganda and the 45,000-ton Canberra, and fitted them for military duty with astonishing alacrity. The Uganda, an "educational cruise liner" that normally carries 900 or more students around the Baltic and the Mediterranean, needed only modest modifications to be transformed into a floating 1,000-bed hospital. At a British navy dockyard in Gibraltar, 300 workers fitted the ship's stern with prefabricated steel helicopter pads. A smoking room...
...price of Britain's war in the South Atlantic has gone past the $1 billion mark-a huge expense currently covered by a $4.5 billion defense contingency fund. The QE2 alone is costing the British government $225,000 a day to operate, while the Uganda and the Canberra are running about $175,000 apiece. Cunard lost $3.5 million in revenues from the Mediterranean cruise it was forced to cancel but, like the other ship owners, expects to be fully compensated for whatever losses it incurs. Says an aide to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "This has been very good...
...with the British task force were no better off. A New York Times correspondent reported from the converted passenger liner Canberra that troops aboard were relying on the BBC for news of the conflict since their officers did not fill them in, even when the Sheffield went down...