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...because of the unexpectedness of the attack-then at some point in the future the conflict will expand. In short, we stand on the eve of a new Arab-Israeli war. The superpowers have got to head it off, just as we stopped the massacre in 1973. Our fleet is standing by in the Mediterranean. So is the American fleet. Both are moving in the same direction, toward Lebanon. Doesn't this situation compel us to consider what needs to be done to put an end to this conflict...
...Argentine A-4 Skyhawk bombers and two Mirage fighter-bombers suddenly swooped down over the 5,674-ton landing ships, anchored only 400 yds. from the Fitzroy beach. The attack was particularly unexpected because for well over a week bad weather had kept Argentine flyers away from the British fleet. There had even been speculation that the air force had been too badly crippled by losses to re-enter the fray. The British claimed to have downed about 70 aircraft. But according to U.S. sources, the Argentines had also received reinforcements: ten Peruvian Mirages flown from Lima early last week...
Planning for the rally has been under way for weeks from Bangor, Me., to San Diego. After the Boston city council approved a resolution urging residents to go to New York, 3,500 reserved space aboard a fleet of 50 buses and a twelve-car Amtrak special dubbed the Peace Train. Planners expect Ohio alone to be represented by more than 10,000 participants from dozens of communities; West Virginia and Minnesota will send 500 demonstrators apiece. Some local groups helped raise money to defray costs for those who wanted to take part. At an interdenominational church service in Birmingham...
...history is still well taught in British schools. "The English think that the most important event of the Elizabethan age," explains Anglican Historian Henry Chadwick, who is also an adviser to Archbishop Runcie, "was the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, when the King of Spain sent a fleet to conquer the English ships and to invade and impose Roman Catholicism on the people. When people say the Pope ought not to come, they are saying that something like the Spanish Armada is on our doorstep again. They have a notion that one last ship was left behind...
...tribute to their Nazi guest. It was a dazzling display from a master of spectacle, but like most other things Benito Mussolini did, this muscle flexing was little more than an act: two years later, after a few disastrous encounters with Britain's Royal Navy, his impressive-looking fleet cowered in port, all but useless to the Germans...