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...four-page charter imposing comparable restrictions in order to gain access to their 10,000-member gulf force. In both nations, law and tradition make it easier for the government to control the wartime press than in the U.S. The British believe stringent controls over press coverage in the Falkland Islands war contributed greatly to the success of the effort. London firmly believes that to enjoy public support, war must be conducted beyond the public's view. The Pentagon apparently now concurs with the British view...
...position arose over a foreign policy issue: Britain's role in the European Community. But throughout the years, she benefited greatly from her skillful, high-profile handling of international affairs. Her re-election in 1983 was ensured by her unhesitating dispatch of British forces to recapture the Falkland Islands from the Argentine invaders...
Israelis, remembering that the U.S. and Britain limited press coverage of the Grenada and Falkland Island invasions, ask defensively why Israel should hesitate to do the same in the West Bank. The analogy blurs the line between the secrecy needs of combat operations and those of policing civil unrest, but the idea of shutting out the press has got a sympathetic hearing in elite quarters. Last month former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was quoted as telling a group of American Jewish leaders that the "insurrection must be quelled immediately, and the first step is to throw out television...
Dallas Real Estate Man Anthony Gange is trying to coax the corrections department into buying an unfinished 108-room mansion owned by followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, onetime spiritual mentor of the Beatles. Asking price: $2.9 million. Houston Salvage Operator George Walsh is hawking one of Britain's Falkland Islands barges, currently in the South Atlantic, for $6 million. The U.S. Government has offered to stash miscreants on offshore oil- drilling platforms...
...Dean returned to the Argentinian islands with Yalouris, who became interested in the project. The pair, avoiding combat in the area from the Falkland war by 10 days, returned to the U.S. to recruit a team of archaeologists to help them raise the ship from under 10 feet of water...