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Cast members believe their success is largely due to the continuing relevance of Hair's message. Co-director Shaun Clarke, a 1982 graduate of Brown, notes that the show opened as the Falkland Islands crisis ended, and spanned the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. "What Hair does is give people hope that we can change," he says, adding "The time for Hair is now, just as it was then...
...debate on military spending had for years been fought in Pentagon memos, reports and meetings: the crucial difference this year was that the debate shifted to real battlefields, in Lebanon and the Falkland Islands. In both cases, the results were spectacular and unmistakeable. Israeli fliers in ultra-modern McDonnell Douglas F-15 planes shot down 40 Syrian planes in the first month of the invasion without losing a single jet. They also destroyed 19 surface-to-air missile batteries in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in a single battle, again with no Israeli losses...
...hulking, gray floating village of some 1,200 souls, the British carrier Invincible returns to Portsmouth, England, this week. It will be 166 days since it first set out for the Falkland Islands-the longest continuous tour at sea of any British warship since the days of sail-and among those eager to join family and friends will be a helicopter pilot named Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, 22, a veteran of numerous dicey adventures during the conflict. "I was airborne at the time the Atlantic Conveyor was hit," he recalls. "I saw it being struck by the missile...
...reader in the West is not much comforted by the precarious victory, nor is he meant to be. In part, the world owes its bloody deliverance to simple luck. (Certainly one ironic bit of luck, although it came too late for inclusion in this book, would be that the Falkland Islands war gave he British an opportunity to sort out their modern weapons and bucked up their national courage.) Had the Soviets delayed their attack for a year or two, as KGB intelligence reports recommended, the activities of European disarmers, and the foreign policy blunders of the "abrasive" Republican Administration...
...nuclear weapons. A few typed commands to a VAX 11/780 minicomputer conjure up rivers, mountains and cities. Drawing on the resources of the Defense Mapping Agency, the machine can display in full topographical detail any 15-sq.-mi. slice of the earth, from the Straits of Hormuz to the Falkland Islands, although the game is most often played on West German real estate near the Iron Curtain...