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...different kind of burnout looms Over the Commonwealth of the Democratic Americas in A.D. 2000, as Burgess plays with a well-known science fiction theme. An iron-heavy planet, code-named Lynx, threatens to vaporize the earth in this third and most complete tale. Valentine Brodie, a jittery, lustful, heavy-drinking young "future fiction" writer, is to accompany a space ark populated by an elite, computer-selected group of scientists and thinkers. They have been chosen to carry civilization to the next world. Brodie, like Freud, is fond of cigars, panatellas called Solzhenitsyns. He is also fond...
When dining out, a fur coat is a fantasy necessity. Fendi's one-of-a-kind Croiset Norka fox ($75,000, from Neiman-Marcus) would do nicely, but a "full-length sweep of splendor" made of Russian snow lynx bellies ($125,000, from Sakowitz) is more tasteful if less carefree. To stay svelte, anyone would love Heartmate, an electronically controlled aerobic exercise bicycle ($4,000, from Abercrombie & Fitch). The avid pedaler can listen to music, AMFM, or view television on the machine's console, while monitoring digital read-outs of mileage, heart rate, calorie expenditure and countdown timing...
...related to the invasion plan. Early in the week a British frigate nosed into Falkland Sound (now known to the Argentines as the Straits of San Carlos) between East and West Falkland. The aim was to provoke Argentine fire in order to gain knowledge of hostile troop positions. A Lynx helicopter was launched from the frigate, and machine guns and a flare were fired, but there was no Argentine response...
...well as the Belgrano, the Argentines announced-mistakenly it turned out-that yet another navy vessel had been lost. According to Buenos Aires, a dispatch ship, the Sobral, had been fired on by British missile-carrying Lynx helicopters as it searched for a downed Canberra bomber crew within the 200-mile zone. The British said that the Sobral and another Argentine boat had been hit and at least one sunk. A day later, the Sobral limped back into the Argentine port of Deseado with eight dead crewmen...
...British used another combat-untested weapon to sink one Argentine patrol boat last week and damage another. Lynx helicopters operating from one of the task force's destroyers or frigates fired British-built Sea Skua missiles, air-to-ship weapons that have been deployed by the Royal Navy for less than a year. Many details of the Sea Skua remain secret, but it is a sausage-shaped device, 8 ft. long and weighing about...