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...pall of smoke from the Sheffield had been clearly visible from the Hermes, where it brought a personal sense of loss to Fleet Commander Woodward. He was captain of the Sheffield from 1976 to 1978. There was another irony. While the Sheffield was being built at Barrow-in-Furness, England, a part of her hull was damaged in an industrial explosion. An identical type of destroyer, the Hercules, was being constructed alongside the damaged vessel, and the prospective owners, the Argentine government, generously offered to give the hull section intended for their ship to the British. The Hercules...
Casting a further pall over the British was the news that two more of its Sea Harriers were missing and presumed lost in the Falklands, the apparent victims of brutal South Atlantic weather conditions. The size of the carrier-based Harrier force was thus reduced from the initial 20 to at most 17. In a move to strengthen the task force, a group of 18 to 20 Harriers that were supposed to reach the Falklands by ship were instead ordered to fly to the combat zone from Ascension Island; they will be refueled in air, and most of them should...
...millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day... I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...
...those things that happened. Anthony challenged this guy to fight, the guy brought along two friends, and when the going got rough, one of them pulled a knife," a classmate now recalls. But at the time, the school closed for the week, and the incident cast a pall over the idea of mixing the two divergent groups...
...forces have recently rallied and declared a final offensive. Students are taking terms off, housewives are going on the road, and backers are raising a good deal of money to try to sway three more states. This final drive should be allowed to proceed without the pall of a possible judicial rejection...