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Meanwhile, British Royal Marine commandos, backed by 7.8-ton Scorpion tanks, which move with relative ease through swampy areas, had begun their own breakout from the beachhead. Traveling eastward from Port San Carlos, they were moving along roads that were no more than rutted tracks toward the Falklands capital of Port Stanley, 50 miles away. Their aim: to launch an attack on some 7,500 troops dug in around the settlement, the bulk of the force that precipitated the South Atlantic crisis with their own invasion of the bleak islands on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Explosions and Breakthroughs | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

Oriental food has its place in the sun. You can find it at Yenching at Harvard Square, Joyce Chen's at Fresh Pond, Hunan, Kabuki and Colleen's in Central Square, Ta Chien across from the Kennedy School, and Hong Kong on Mass Ave. Try Hong Kong's "scorpion bowl." Trust...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: While You're in Cambridge... | 3/20/1980 | See Source »

Some of the adventure toys are truly freaky. Woolworths has an aisle devoted to the Megabugs--Megaspider Gladiator, Scorpion Megabug and Dragonfly Megabug. They are "the combat machines of the future." They cost $8.29, but include "bug bomb, working winch and insect sound." You can manually operate the wings on Dragonfly Megabug...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...While the Thai soldier would give a good account of himself if his country were invaded, he would be hamstrung by inexperienced leadership and unsophisticated weapons. The country's arsenal consists mainly of 149 aircraft and 150 U.S.-made M41 light tanks. On order are 149 British-made Scorpion reconnaissance vehicles that one local military specialist described as a "Jeep with a 76-mm gun on top." The illogical purchase of the Scorpions was arranged by a Thai general with a widely rumored penchant for profiteering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Hanoi vs. ASEAN's Paper Tigers | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...audience; it just shovels on the mayhem. Unlike Star Wars, Alien has no affection for past movies of its genre; it just rips them off. Stripped of its futuristic setting and pretensions, this film is an oldtime B monster picture. Alien might just as well be about a huge scorpion loose in a haunted house, circa 1953. While the murder sequences are executed with all the realism money can currently buy, the innocence that ignited vintage horror films is missing. Alien's steely, literal-minded approach to violence more often recalls last summer's joyless Jaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sell Job | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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