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...down. The affairs of the islands would be run not by any international body but by Rex Hunt, who would be returned to his post as governor. The British also intend to keep a garrison, initially of about 3,000 troops, on the Falklands indefinitely and to lengthen the runway at Port Stanley so that it could handle high-speed, longer-range jets such as Phantom multirole fighters and Buccaneer strike aircraft. If the need ever arose, these planes could carry out attacks on the Argentine mainland...
...each airport the war had swiftly overtaken any trace of civilian life. The camouflaged C-130 cargo planes were dropping like slow-moving drone bees onto the runways, their engines still running as they loaded up for unknown destinations. Despite reports of heavy British bombing of the runway at Port Stanley, one pallet of mail and Argentine magazines was routinely marked is. MALVINAS. In Comodoro Rivadavia a convoy of perhaps 40 Mercedes-Benz trucks painted in camouflage carried units of the country's elite paratrooper corps. I was repeatedly told that the reason for the tightened security...
...other difficulty that towered above the rest was provision of air cover for a seaborne assault. Excellent though Britain's Sea King helicopters and the Harriers might be, Argentina's Skyhawks, along with the Israeli Daggers and French-made Mirage fighters, would have the advantage. The runway at Port Stanley had been improved by the invaders but could hardly be considered fully operational, even for the Skyhawks carrying lightened loads. The airbase could, moreover, be readily neutralized from the sea. But Argentine planes could still operate from the continental mainland. The air force could not be completely contained...
Word went out to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for a possible touchdown there. But NASA was uneasy about landing on the single, three-mile-long K.S.C. runway. Though Kennedy will eventually be used regularly by the shuttle, NASA has not yet tested the bird's landing characteristics in the crosswinds that might be encountered there. An even less desirable option: putting Columbia down on a concrete strip at California's Edwards Air Force Base, near the muddy, rain-soaked desert lake bed where Columbia touched down on its two earlier missions. Laconically acknowledging...
When, at the end of our semester it was time to leave, the wheels of our Finnair jet lifted from the runway of Moscow's Sheremetivo airport, and our group burst into thunderous applause and joyous cheers. Our euphoric outburst was a natural expression of our relief at leaving the frustrations of Soviet life behind and finally heading home. For some of us, it was also an expression of thanksgiving for the degree of liberty that American can democracy, despite serious faults, has managed to protect...