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...whose second son, Prince Andrew, is a helicopter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Invincible, made a rare and direct comment on the issue. Using the banquet at Windsor Castle for President Ronald Reagan as the occasion, she personally denounced "naked aggression" in the Falklands. In the port of Southampton, meanwhile, cheering Britons gave a rapturous welcome to her namesake, the Cunard luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2, returning safely from the Falklands with 629 injured and wounded, plus crewmen from the lost British ships...
...explained that the liner's size, speed and facilities made it "uniquely suited to carry a substantial number of troops, who must be kept fit and ready for operations should they be required." Few people, even among the 1,700 would-be passengers whose 13-day cruise from Southampton to the Mediterranean had been abruptly canceled, quarreled with that as sertion. The QE2 can make the 8,000-mile voyage to the Falklands in about ten days at a speed of 28.5 knots (or 32.8 land miles per hour). Its speed gives it the capability of escaping from...
...Queen Elizabeth 2, flagship of the Cunard Line and the last of the great passenger liners of the North Atlantic, was less than a day from Southampton last week on a trip out of Philadelphia when its owners received an urgent message from the British government: the 67,500-ton liner was being requisitioned immediately for military service. Its likely mission: to carry to the South Atlantic some 3,000 to 4,000 men of the Fifth Infantry Brigade and support units, a force that would probably become the nucleus of a permanent garrison in the Falklands if the British...
...some what more complicated task. Most of the luxurious furniture and fittings from the public rooms were removed. Cunard decided to store ashore the bone china, the crystal glassware, the potted plants, the 17,000 bottles of champagne and the half-ton of caviar. Passengers had hardly disembarked at Southampton before vases and linens, cycling machines and weight-lifting equipment from the ship's gymnasium, and countless other items were packed in crates and hauled away. The paintings were taken down, but the walls of smoked glass and the polished chrome bar tables were left in place...
...Tunisia, Egypt and Syria. His present link with Syria is largely symbolic and may well collapse, as the others did, in recrimination. In 1973 Gaddafi ordered an Egyptian submarine, temporarily under his command in Libyan waters, to torpedo the Queen Elizabeth II, which was carrying hundreds of Jews from Southampton to Haifa to celebrate Israel's 25th anniversary. Sadat, who was then still on speaking terms with Gaddafi, countermanded the order. Over the past decade, Gaddafi has continually tried to get hold of an atom bomb?so far with no success, although Libya has two small nuclear facilities (one built...