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...Palestinian faction or had been involved in the London though the P.L.O. office in London responsibility. The gunman, Hassan Ahmed Said, 23, who was hospitalized and then turned over to the police, had at least two accomplices. The men carried two Jordanian passports one from Iraq. Their capture by Scotland Yard reportedly led to the seizure of a hit list targeting other high-level Israelis, well as a cache of guns, hand grenades and ammunition...
During his six-day pastoral visit to England, Scotland and Wales that ended last week, Pope John Paul II evoked the sobering specter of modern warfare at nearly every stop. To a Britain at war, the Pope offered a vision of peace-of the inviolable worth and dignity of every soul on earth. At an open-air Mass, he told 300,000 cheerful but attentive listeners that, if unleashed, society's war machines today would make even the destruction of World War II pale in comparison. He spoke near the most renowned landmark in Coventry, England: the remnant...
...bouquet of smells. A peek into the larder is enough to tickle even the most jaded palate. Fresh foie gras de canard and turbot flown in from France, mallard ducks and wild morel mushrooms newly arrived from Washington State, plump pheasant and succulent little grouse shot in Scotland, live crayfish shipped up twice a week from New Orleans...
...departure was an omen for good or ill, although Parsons on arriving in Britain declared that this week "things will move very rapidly one way or another." Underscoring that point, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sounded far from hopeful as she told a Conservative Party audience in Perth, Scotland, that a negotiated settlement of the Falklands dispute "may prove unattainable." Said she with passion: "I hope with all my heart that the negotiations will succeed. I do not want to see one more life lost in the South Atlantic-whether Argentine or British-if it can be avoided...
...Once part of the country's nuclear deterrent force, the Vulcans, most of which are some 20 years old or more, have been refitted to carry as many as 21 conventional 1,000-lb. bombs each. Practice flights of the Vulcans for their new role took place in Scotland, and the first of the aircraft, along with their Victor aerial refueling tankers, were ferried to Ascension Island not long after the British navy began assembling its Falklands task force. Other Stage 3 possibilities include a full-scale invasion of the Falklands aimed at encircling the main Argentine forces...