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...more ways than one. Reagan also made his first public comment -a huzzah-on the news that two of those Navy F-14s had shot down two Soviet-made Libyan Su-22s over the Mediterranean off Libya's coastline (see WORLD). That had been a two-fisted, straight-shooting display of military decisiveness much in keeping with Reagan's desire to project American clout overseas...
Governor Brown did not have to agree to aerial spraying in trying to thwart the Mediterranean fruit fly [July 27]. As the 1981 edition of the Farmers' Almanac specifically points out, "Scientists have discovered that the mating call of the Mediterranean fruit fly has exactly the same frequency as lower F-sharp on the harmonica." All the good Governor needs is a harmonica and an amplifier...
Alone at last? Yes, but only after the royal yacht Britannia managed to shake off its accompanying flotilla of well-wishers at Gibraltar and run for the open Mediterranean, could its two passengers, Prince Charles, 32, and his new bride, Diana, 20, begin a fortnight of solitude and sightseeing...
After their first two days at Broadlands (home of the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma) and two weeks aboard the royal yacht Britannia in the Mediterranean, the Prince and Princess will try to keep to themselves until late September, when what Charles calls "the family business" will start up again in earnest. Banquets, speeches, presentations, appearances: at least 200 official functions a year, plus one major foreign trip. The monarchy, it is said repeatedly, is above politics. But the monarchy has a political effect and the wedding demonstrated it, in the same way that it suggested the promise...
First there are the eyes, great brown pools that can reflect a doe's yearning or flash with Mediterranean fire...