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Sailors in their blue-and-white dress uniforms lined up on deck in the traditional farewell. Spectators in boats accompanying the Invincible searched for a glimpse of Prince Andrew, 22, second in line to the throne and a helicopter pilot. The decks of the Invincible and the Hermes were jammed...
As the Falklands' British Governor, Rex Hunt, recounted the story of the actual fighting, a tiny force of Royal Marines battled determinedly and well for several hours against an overwhelming force of Argentine troops who stormed the tiny (pop. 1,050) settlement of Port Stanley. The marines finally laid down...
The day after the attack, as the Argentines launched a mopping-up operation against 22 marines on the island of South Georgia, the full storm of recrimination broke over the Thatcher government. In the first emergency weekend sitting of Parliament since the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, both the opposition...
Retired four-star general Anthony C. Zinni said in an interview last night that Iraq policy will largely be determined by the situation on the ground and not by which party wins the White House in November. “The situation in Iraq will dictate the actual policy,?...
The mainstream press has reported that Mughniyah truck bombed the Marines and two American embassies in Beirut in the 1980s, as well as being behind two bombings against Israeli and Jewish targets in Argentina. Whether he was responsible or not for all of this mayhem - there is no conclusive evidence...