Word: rio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the Falklands. Its main duty was to protect the vulnerable aircraft carrier Hermes from air attack. Instead, the destroyer fell victim. At least two, and possibly three, French-built fighters, including at least one Super-Etendard fighter-bomber, were about 550 miles from a mainland airbase, presumably at Rio Gallegos, and nearing the limit of their combat range when the radar on a Super-Etendard locked in on the Sheffield. About 20 miles from the ship, two of the pilots fired one Exocet each and then wheeled away without waiting to see the results. One missile went wide...
...daybreak in Ushuaia I was put on a 44-seat air force Fokker turboprop for a mail flight to the coastal bases of Rio Grande and Rio Gallegos. It was the first leg of a three-flight, twelve-hour journey in custody. It was also an edgy and unpleasant experience. My bags were "searched" twice, that being the kindest term for the hostile way in which personal contents can be scornfully tossed, spilled and made to seem like bits of compromising evidence all their own. Why was a "distinguished" American journalist carrying a duffel bag? Why were his shirts rumpled...
...challenge was much the same in Buenos Aires. To get the story, TIME Argentine journalistic alumni were reunited, headed by South American Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who also served a tour in Buenos Aires from 1962 to 1966. Barry Hillenbrand, currently Boston bureau chief and Rio bureau chief from 1974 to 1977, arrived to join Scott in Buenos Aires last week. "Since my return," Hillenbrand says, "I have been amazed at the unanimity on the Falklands issue." Associate Editor George Russell, who wrote the cover story, was the Buenos Aires-based bureau chief from 1979 to 1981. He found that...
...Britain. Costa Méndez took his case to a Washington meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. There Argentina intended to invoke the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, to which the U.S. is a party. That pact, also known as the Treaty of Rio, stipulates that an armed attack against any one of the signatories will be considered an attack against them all and provides for various sanctions against the aggressor...
...have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like many Iranians, had been trained in the U.S.; he still wore a breast patch from Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. The Iranians have also worked something of a miracle with the sophisticated American weaponry with which the Shah had built the most feared arsenal in the Persian Gulf. Despite a lack of spare parts, F-4 Phantoms can be seen refueling in midair, and F-5 fighters take...