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...overseas." Former Labor Party leader Arthur Calwell stormed in reply that no red-blooded Australian wanted to see a "chocolate-colored" country, while Liberal Cabinet ministers insisted Australia would remain forever homogeneous. Today Vietnamese immigrants gather around high-rise public-housing buildings in Melbourne's inner-city neighborhood of Fitzroy, playing cards or talking in the soft twilight. What they will make of Australia, and Australia of them, is still to be determined...
DIED. Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 83, tenth Duke of Beaufort and, from 1936 to 1978, Master of the Horse, third-ranking post in the royal household; after a heart attack; in Badminton, England. The Duke followed his pack of hounds for more than 70 years and once estimated that he had spent 4,000 days in the saddle pursuing foxes. He defended his passion by saying, "Hunting is the only thing that draws this country together-apart from...
British radar failed to spot the low-flying Argentines. The Rapier surface-to-air missiles that British ground forces had used with great success at the Port San Carlos beachhead were already ashore at Fitzroy, but they had not yet been set up on hillsides overlooking the estuary. Although both ships would have been unloaded in another hour or so, at the time of the attack the Sir Galahad was still packed with most of its full complement of 68 crewmen and, according to some accounts, as many as 500 troops waiting to go ashore. Those on board...
...rotor blades to push the rubber rafts to the safety of the beach. Ashore, all was chaos as casualties were brought to a makeshift field hospital and then flown by a continuous helicopter shuttle to the main British medical center at San Carlos Bay. Said an army doctor at Fitzroy: "I've seen some pretty awful injuries, but nothing as horrifying as this. All we can do is put on special burn dressings and get them back as soon as possible to a warm, sterile unit...
...British losses at Fitzroy once again highlighted the major weakness of their task force: the lack of an effective airborne early warning system similar to the AW ACS used by the U.S. The Falklands conflict erupted only a few months before the British were scheduled to install a comparable radar system in their Nimrod Mark 3 reconnaissance aircraft. About six weeks ago, London asked Washington for the loan of an AW ACS to repair that important deficiency, but the Reagan Administration refused. The reason: Washington's insistence that American servicemen, who would be necessary to operate the system...