Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already begun in London, where Thatcher's government faces inquiries into why Argentina's invasion of the Falklands came as such a surprise. The Prime Minister was embarrassed by the publication of a letter she had written to a Tory loyalist on Feb. 3, claiming that the Royal Marine garrison stationed in the Falklands prior to Argentina's invasion-a total of 42 men-was a "sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression." Thatcher's explanation was that "I don't think any of us quite expected we would get a sudden invasion without an enormous...
Second in line to the throne behind his father, the royal infant will be known as Prince William of Wales...
...Sidewinders fired by Harriers during the war, 23 scored hits. These, however, were most probably British missiles; the U.S.-supplied Sidewinders were apparently used only to replenish inventories in Britain. Also supplied were highly effective laser target indicators for British ground forces and a radar system for the Royal Navy's Sea wolf surface-to-air missiles...
...modern Grimm idiom, all storybook romances make hot story properties. So, well ahead of a real-life heir, a script has been conceived and delivered, and filming has begun, on Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, a two-hour movie to be aired by CBS later this year. Since most of the authentic locales for the tale (places like Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle) are currently occupied and unavailable for film production, the movie is being shot in the mansions of Long Island, Connecticut and upstate New York. Prince Charles is portrayed by Christopher Baines, a British stage actor...
...change. His obituary listed nearly as many metamorphoses as Ovid did. Demara, "the Great Impostor," spent years a his life being successfully and utterly someone else: a Trappist monk, a doctor of psychology, a dean of philosophy at a small Pennsylvania college, a law student, a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy, a deputy warden at a prison in Texas. Demara took the protean itch and amateur's gusto, old American traits, to new frontiers of pathology and fraud...