Word: royals
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British naval guns pounded the area around Grytviken to clear a landing zone for helicopters, taking care, meanwhile, to avoid hitting Argentine troop concentrations in order to minimize casualties. When the Royal Marines, backed by a few army troops, finally came ashore, the initial firefight was reportedly brisk and brief. Within two hours after the landing, a white flag was hoisted by the Argentine commander at Grytviken, and a short while later the blue and white Argentine flag was hauled down. After securing Grytviken, the British were able to make radio contact with a second garrison of 16 Argentine soldiers...
...match, which, in my view, should be a walkover." Advised Woodward to the remaining Argentine troops in the Falklands: "If you want to get out, I suggest you do so now. Once we arrive, the only way home will be courtesy of the Royal Navy...
...Invincible are equipped with only 20 Sea Harrier vertical short-takeoff and landing jet aircraft. The Harriers are highly maneuverable but also are relatively slow (top speed 736 m.p.h.) and have a maximum range of only 460 miles-or about 100 miles for a 1 1/2-hr. blockade patrol. The Royal Navy's version of the Harrier is not well suited to supporting ground troops; for that, the British need a longerrange, Royal Air Force version of the aircraft, the Harrier GR.Mk3. A British container ship, the Atlantic Conveyor, is now bringing 18 of the Harrier GR.Mk3s to the Falklands...
...growing and now great majority in Britain welcomed the dispatch of the Royal Navy task force to the South Atlantic. But some in the U.K. are beginning to express anxiety about its use. Sending the force was all right, the argument goes, but using it is quite another matter. Would that be wise, would it be right? The question can be simply and robustly settled. "Covenants without swords," wrote Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century, "are but words." There is no point in sending guns unless you are prepared to use them...
...polo. Center of the action is the four-year-old Palm Beach Polo and Country Club. The P.B.P.C.C. has eleven polo fields (each ten times the size of a football field) surrounded by condominiums, villas and single-family homes. There is also a complex in Boca Raton called the Royal Palm Polo-Sports Club, with seven fields, and the 800-acre Gulfstream Polo at Lake Worth with five more...