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...keeping economic sanctions against Argentina. The Royal Navy plans to continue denying Argentine ships and aircraft access to a 200-mile zone around the Falklands. The exclusionary zone may be maintained at least until the end of August, when British military engineers expect to complete expansion of the runway at Port Stanley for use by a squadron of Phantom jet fighters and Nimrod reconnaissance planes. Britain intends to establish a permanent garrison of some 2,500 troops in the Falklands, as well as a naval force that will include two submarines and three frigates. As a Thatcher aide...
...vacant, except for the carcasses of two scorched jets on the runway. To the left stands Shuweifat, where Ahmed is on patrol. The vantage point is Israeli headquarters, a secondary school beside a music conservatory. Armored vehicles rest in the parking lot. It is here that one must arrange for an escort to the south, to Tyre. The trip is scheduled for Sunday. The Israeli officer is helpful. He laments the war. "The world has not been fair to the Palestinians." He tells of a Palestinian mother, the wife of a P.L.O. officer, who escaped West Beirut with her baby...
Shortly after 4 p.m., Captain McCullers rolled the 105-ton plane, freshly loaded to its capacity of 8,000 gals, of jet fuel, down Runway 10 to take off toward the east. Behind him in the 92-ft.-long cabin, 138 passengers were in their seats. Flight 759 was a weekend gamblers' special headed for Las Vegas. Only ten of the passengers, some of whom had boarded in Miami, were to go on to San Diego...
...luck of the casino-bound travelers ran out early, right after takeoff. The plane clipped a tree only 2,250 ft. beyond the runway and apparently never rose more than 150 ft. into the air. "It didn't seem to be able to get up," said Mike Scardino, who was driving nearby. Two miles east of the airport, Evelyn Pourciau looked up at the sky from her neighborhood of Kenner, a middle-class suburb of one-story brick houses. "I saw the belly of it," she said about the 727. "It was spitting and popping like it couldn...
...Faisal two years earlier, there was little at Jubail but scrub, sand and the nearby fishing village of Al Jubail seven miles to the south on the Persian Gulf. Within twelve months, enough trailers to house 13,000 workers had been plopped onto the sandscape. A 13,000-ft. runway, capable of receiving the largest of wide-body aircraft, was built from scratch in less than a year. By 1980, 5 million gal. of fresh water daily were flowing ashore from a Japanese-built desalination plant that rose six stories above the warm Persian Gulf waters...