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...Falklands. Conditions guarantee an ugly, unpleasant engagement. The Falklands, cold, damp, desolate clumps of rock set in a storm-tossed ocean, are a dismal place for military operations. By last weekend the Argentine forces, composed in part of raw recruits conscripted only months be fore, were dug in on the mossy, treeless, windy wasteland. They were waiting for British troops, who, though surely more experienced and better trained, had al ready endured what must have seemed like an eternity of confinement and sea sickness on the violent South Atlantic. It appeared, as it has been from the first, a confrontation...
...task force. Other Stage 3 possibilities include a full-scale invasion of the Falklands aimed at encircling the main Argentine forces at Port Stanley. But for that, the current British forces of some 4,000 marines and paratroopers (1,500 with the task force, 2,500 aboard the converted ocean liner Canberra) is inadequate. Recognizing the manpower problem, the British last week sent 1,200 more troops toward the Falklands aboard the Norland ferry. Additional British units are receiving emergency training for Falklands duty in the mountainous reaches of northern Scotland...
SOMETIMES Nye dodges the fallacy, allowing meaning to creep in with the names and painting one side of the name instead of trying to reduce an ocean of meaning to an eyedropper. In "Clarence," she follows the thread of landscape as it spins out from the names of places. A Mayan hieroglyph means "sky", but not only sky-in the Guatemalan sky there also fly-or flew-quetzal birds, the source of ancient Indian folklore and mystery. Nye brings the bird naturally into her sky. She traces the connotations of each image down through the rest of the poem...
Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
...consensus in the U.S. that we must meet our problems with more precise and less destructive technology; the nuclear-powered Atlanta, armed with conventional weapons, is a superb example. Captain White believes that if one day the U.S. is forced into combat along the valleys and mountains of the ocean's floor, there is only one way to win it-attack. He has no doubts about his determination, his men or his submarine. In that confidence now lies much of the security of this nation...