Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When paratroopers and Royal Marine commandos stormed ashore in the Falkland Islands last May, it was to engage in Britain's first major war since Suez. Twenty-four days later, the Argentine army surrendered. But the cost to Britain was high: 255 killed, 777 wounded and an estimated $1.4 billion worth of ships and equipment lost in combat. In addition, nagging uncertainties about the war have remained. Was it preventable? Had Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher failed to anticipate the Argentine threat? Did the Foreign Office goof? Was the Intelligence Service at fault? Those questions, and others like them, have...
...discussing a Ministry of Defense post-mortem of the campaign, published last month. Overall, experts concluded, the conflict vindicated arguments that Britain should retain a strike capacity in addition to its role in NATO. A public relations shambles over press censorship came in for considerable criticism, as did the Royal Navy task force's lack of a credible early-warning system against low-level air attack. "Had the Argentine air force been equipped with more up-to-date systems," noted one general, "the war would have been a much more bloody affair." On balance, however, the navy was praised...
...hired her former student. But his relations with Kirkpatrick had become strained, U.N. insiders say, and he found himself with little to do except serve on the disarmament committee. Kirkpatrick was reportedly irritated by Adelman's brash writings, including an article in Harper's that compared the "royal incompetence" of Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere with Shakespeare's Richard II. Members of the U.S. mission talk about "the Ken problem," his tendency to promote simple solutions to complex issues. "He bubbles over with ideas," says a colleague, "and many of them...
...young Americans who are potential stars, among them Sopranos Leona Mitchell and Kathleen Battle. And his tireless work with the Met orchestra has greatly raised the level of its playing: short of the Vienna State Opera orchestra's class, but at least on a par with the excellent Royal Opera House orchestra in London...
This production initiates an admirable transatlantic lend-lease plan between Joseph Papp's Public Theater and Britain's Royal Court Theater. As might be expected, the entire cast is best-of-breed...