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...ships and aircraft access to a 200-mile zone around the Falklands. The exclusionary zone may be maintained at least until the end of August, when British military engineers expect to complete expansion of the runway at Port Stanley for use by a squadron of Phantom jet fighters and Nimrod reconnaissance planes. Britain intends to establish a permanent garrison of some 2,500 troops in the Falklands, as well as a naval force that will include two submarines and three frigates. As a Thatcher aide put it, "We shall be keeping our guard up for some considerable time to come...
...once again highlighted the major weakness of their task force: the lack of an effective airborne early warning system similar to the AW ACS used by the U.S. The Falklands conflict erupted only a few months before the British were scheduled to install a comparable radar system in their Nimrod Mark 3 reconnaissance aircraft. About six weeks ago, London asked Washington for the loan of an AW ACS to repair that important deficiency, but the Reagan Administration refused. The reason: Washington's insistence that American servicemen, who would be necessary to operate the system, not become involved...
...send aloft for combat patrols and raids on the islands while continuing to protect his fleet. That weakness, more than any other factor, might hamper a British invasion of the islands. To help beef up the British air effort further, the government late last week dispatched long-range Nimrod reconnaissance planes to the South Atlantic. Nimrods, the British version of the AWACS, can give British ships warning of enemy aircraft well before they come within striking distance. In addition, the British government announced that four more frigates would join the Falklands fleet. One other possibility: the ferrying of Royal...
...Dror and Nimrod, both 10, are the best of friends, and share a bedroom in the kibbutz. Dror wears glasses and looks professorial. Nimrod has a dreamer's face. His brown bangs are cut evenly like a monk's over a pair of eyes the same shade of brown. The boys' room is spare, full of sunlight and, like most boys' rooms, ridiculous. On the wall hang pictures of two white kittens, a deer, Popeye and Olive Oyl, and an El Al jet. The boys have done some pictures of their own. Dror displays a drawing of Begin and Sadat...
Something would be lost even in victory. Approval of the sale would enrage Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and perhaps harden him against further conciliation in the Middle East peace process. Disapproval would humiliate Reagan. In addition, it would likely impel the Saudis to buy comparable Nimrod radar planes from Britain and would weaken U.S. influence with the biggest exporter of oil to the West. Whatever the outcome, the debate has already strained U.S.-Saudi relations and diminished Reagan's standing among American Jews...