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...last several years, all national development in space technology has revolved around the shuttle, designed to carry cargo and passengers in addition to scientific equipment...
...south with her oil tanks empty. Her eventual destination: Alaska. The ship was far from the 200-mile blockade limit, which both Britain and Argentina have declared around the Falklands, when it was attacked by a four-engine aircraft, probably a C130. Bombs were pushed out of the aircraft cargo door; one hit the Hercules but failed to explode on board. None of the 29 crewmen was injured. According to the British Defense Ministry, the ship was ordered by radio to head for an Argentine port within 15 minutes or face attack. Argentina denied any knowledge of the incident...
Every word hauls some basic cargo or else can be shrugged aside as vacant sound. Indeed, almost any word can, in some use, take on that extra baggage of bias or sentiment that makes for the truly manipulative word. Even the pronoun it becomes one when employed to report, say, that somebody has what it takes. So does the preposition in when used to establish, perhaps, that zucchini quiche is in this year: used just so, in all but sweats with class bias. The emotion-heavy words that are easiest to spot are epithets and endearments: blockhead, scumbum, heel, sweetheart...
...each airport the war had swiftly overtaken any trace of civilian life. The camouflaged C-130 cargo planes were dropping like slow-moving drone bees onto the runways, their engines still running as they loaded up for unknown destinations. Despite reports of heavy British bombing of the runway at Port Stanley, one pallet of mail and Argentine magazines was routinely marked is. MALVINAS. In Comodoro Rivadavia a convoy of perhaps 40 Mercedes-Benz trucks painted in camouflage carried units of the country's elite paratrooper corps. I was repeatedly told that the reason for the tightened security...
...there was a plane ready to take me back to Buenos Aires. From the outside it was a normal Boeing 707 with Aerolineas Argentinas markings. Only after I boarded did I realize that the Argentines had had the last laugh: the plane was an empty shell used for transporting cargo and troops. It might be uncomfortable enough with several hundred soldiers as its only source of heat, but a single passenger sitting on a bare metal floor in the darkness was not enough to keep the temperature above that of a meat locker. The last sentence from the pilot: "Maybe...