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...breastplates, the tips of their unsheathed swords jauntily resting on their right shoulders, the colorful 16-man troop trotted along Hyde Park's South Carriage Drive while admiring tourists lolled in the grass and snapped pictures. The cavalrymen never reached their destination. At 10:43, just as the regiment's scarlet-and-gold standard came alongside a parked blue Morris Marina sedan, a deafening explosion ripped through the detachment, filling the air with 4-and 6-in. nails and blowing the flesh of both men and horses yards around...
...change of tempo in the the war following stood in sharp contrast to the speed of British successes following the landing of 5,000 Royal Marine commandos and Parachute Regiment troops near Port San Carlos. Slogging across the boggy ground, they had captured 1,600 Argentine troops near the settlement of Goose Green (see map). Then, in a combination of rapid marches and bold helicopter assaults, they secured the commanding height of Mount Kent, overlooking Port Stanley. Encountering almost no Argentine resistance, they set up forward observation posts on hills known as the Two Sisters, only six miles from...
...Scots and Welsh Guards and a battalion of the legendary Nepa-lese-born Gurkhas, landed at the Port San Carlos beachhead two weeks ago. The Gurkhas were assigned the task of mopping up pockets of Argentine resistance that were bypassed by Britain's fast-moving Parachute Regiment as it raced toward Goose Green and Port Stanley. Daily, after a ritual unsheathing of their curved kukris, they flew out in Scout helicopters on search and destroy missions in the southern part of East Falkland known ss ASSOCIATION as Lafonia. The British feared that the stragglers, if not found, could...
Suddenly, a bridgehead became a blitzkrieg last week in the embattled Falkland Islands. Members of Britain's Parachute Regiment moved rapidly out of their hard-won corner of East Falkland near the settlement of Port San Carlos, taken by invasion only a week earlier, and descended 20 miles south near the settlement of Darwin. Using helicopters to hop across the boggy ground, the crack British troops confronted an Argentine garrison once estimated at about 600. There were reports of sharp fighting, and then the British Defense Ministry tersely announced that Her Majesty's troops had captured both Darwin...
While any one of the five would no doubt accept an offer from Philadelphia or Boston, each professes to be happy with his current situation. Slatkin cites the example of Cleveland, where George Szell turned a regional ensemble into a crack musical regiment: "If it can be done in that city, it can be done in St. Louis." Adds Simmons: "I'm not even thinking about leaving Oakland. Here, I am able to build something that is basically my own instrument. Why go somewhere else and start over again...