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...British troops were maintaining radio silence, and the Defense Ministry was keeping a tight control on what it blandly called "offensive land operations." Nonetheless, the dual attack showed signs of being a classic pincer movement. The outnumbered 5,000-man British force was relying on surprise and mobility to take the battle to the enemy. Only a day after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons that "our troops are moving forward," the British had taken a long stride toward the goal of winning the fierce, stubborn and frustrating war for possession of the Falklands...
...soldiers, chanted Barra, barra! (Out, out!). Reports TIME's Robert Slater: "Suddenly stones were being hurled at the soldiers. One of them fired a tear-gas canister at the crowd, which then fled toward the Dome of the Rock. Meanwhile, soldiers were moving toward the protesters in a pincer movement. I found myself caught between the soldiers and the protesters, protected only by the white marble pillars. I turned toward a gate but the soldiers stopped me, guns at the ready. One shouted: 'Stay here! Don't move...
...Palestinian guerrillas would invite a major military response. No one knows just how far Israel would go if it decides to invade. In talks between Israeli military officials and leaders of Lebanon's right-wing Christian Phalange Party, several options have been considered. One is a coordinated pincer movement, with the Israelis moving north into Lebanon while the Christians push southward. Another option is all-out war, which would mean Israeli attacks not only on the forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization but on Syrian bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and along the Golan Heights...
...down 57 Iraqi planes, destroyed scores of tanks and armored personnel carriers, as well as six missile boats, a merchant ship and 67 military bases and key industrial sites. Tehran also claimed that an entire Iraqi regiment of 600 men had surrendered after Iranian forces trapped them in a pincer movement on the northern front...
...finally, in Dezful, a key military base and oil station, where the Iranians were successfully frustrating an Iraqi bid to vanquish the town and prepare for a possible pincer assault on Ahwaz...