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...glitz and buzz, Libya's international acceptance has not brought deeper political or social change. Last September, Gaddafi celebrated his 40th anniversary in power with a blowout party featuring an air force flypast, hundreds of performers and a massive fireworks display. Aged just 68, Gaddafi Senior is now the world's longest-serving head of government (a few monarchs beat him when it comes to longest-serving head of state). His face peers from billboards across the country, and his firebrand style has barely tempered with age. His blast against Western leaders in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly...
About halfway through the review, the roar of jets signaled an air force flypast, which was virtually invisible to ground observers because of Peking's chronic smog. The New China News Agency reported that 96 aircraft had taken part. They included H-6 bombers, Chinese versions of the Soviet TU-16 Badger; A6s, radically redesigned ground-support planes similar to the MiG-19; and F-7s, a Chinese adaptation of the MiG-21. The foreign observers had not missed much. Although China has the second-largest number of combat aircraft in the world (after the Soviet Union), most...
When David Viscount Linley, 12, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 10, accompanied their mother Princess Margaret on a visit to the Royal Navy at Portland Naval Base, Britain's Senior Service put on a good show. There was a helicopter flypast, and a fire drill with asbestos-clad sailors putting out a fire. David got an extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce...
...usual, the Soviet feat raised more questions than it answered. Originally, the Soviets had launched two large (about one ton each) space vehicles-Venus II and III-within one week of each other last November. The announced purpose was a flypast on either side of Venus, sending back pictures of both views. This led some Western scientists to speculate that Venus III had crashed into Venus by mistake. Not so, announced Moscow, explaining that Venus III was intended to make a soft landing by means of a parachute, but failed. Soft or hard, Sir Bernard Lovell, the director of Britain...
...Drums. With this action, the state funeral closed and the private one began. Churchill's body crossed the Thames, once London's great avenue of trade and triumph, under a massed flypast of fighter planes, which dipped to 500 feet in tribute. At Festival pier, the coffin was placed in a private hearse and driven slowly to Waterloo station. There were no more parades or bands or flags or muffled drums. Accompanied by his family, Churchill's body was carried by special train some 60 miles into the heart of Oxfordshire, to rest beside the graves...