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...Earth NASA directed recovery ships to mark the spot in the Atlanta Ocean where the shuttle's twin rocket boosters sank after launch on Sunday...
Ironically, the most impressive weapon in the war came from Argentina's arsenal: the French-built Exocet missiles, which sank the H.M.S. Sheffield. And in the final analysis, military experts agree, Argentina was defeated not by sophisticated weaponry but by the superior training, tactics and morale of the British forces...
...hours later, Mirages attacked and sank a small British landing craft in Choiseul Sound; London said that four men died and two were wounded. Another wave of Argentine aircraft swept toward the Port San Carlos beachhead. They hit the 2,800-ton frigate H.M.S. Plymouth, one of the older vessels of its type in the 40-ship British task force. The Argentines claimed that the Plymouth exploded, but the British Defense Ministry insisted that while the ship had been damaged, it was still in service. According to the British, five men were wounded. The British said they shot down seven...
...pilots of the Argentine squadron that sank the British destroyer Coventry last month flew into battle repeating the prayers of the Rosary over the open microphones of their radios. An Argentine antiaircraft gunner in Port Stanley described how he shot down a British Harrier: " 'Holy Mother of God'-and bang, bang, I knocked it down from heaven." A wounded 18-year-old Argentine conscript lay dying this week, but confided to the medic treating him, "I pray to God that I get better soon and go back to fight...
...When they first asked me to do The Rake," says Russell, "my heart sank because I had this memory of the most boring evening of my life. I'm not interested in being different for its own sake, and the music in any opera is sacred to me. But if one is true to the spirit of a work, if you don't destroy that spirit, then you can do what you like...