Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 28 miles. One missed the Conveyor; the other struck home. Though the vessel stayed afloat, the crew abandoned ship. Loss of the Conveyor was particularly painful for the British: the ship was carrying a large load of invasion equipment, possibly including heavy troop-carrying Chinook helicopters and spare parts for the Harriers. What made the attack on the freighter especially disturbing for the British was that the Conveyor reportedly was within sight of the carrier Hermes when struck. Presumably, the Hermes was the real target; the Argentines had taken aim at the wrong blip on their radar screens...
...Navy has now taken over those responsibilities, leading U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Thomas Hayward to worry: "We are pushing the Navy as hard as you can push it in peacetime." Argentina was also being increasingly hard-pressed by the war and was searching world markets for spare parts and weapons. In particular, the Argentines were seeking Exocet missiles. Originally, there were believed to be only six in the country's arsenal, and four have already been fired. Only a few other countries in the world might have Exocets to sell. Among them: Iraq, Pakistan, South Africa and Peru...
...house, he toddles around like a middle-aged ironworker on a weekend without the wife, his potbelly peeking out of a plaid bathrobe as he watches TV and gets drunk on Coors beer. Later still, he is a holy sage, a whiz-kid Yoda, constructing a transmitter out of spare parts to signal his spaceship. And he has an extra gift for children. If the moment is propitious, and they truly believe, E.T. can make them fly away from danger and into the harvest-moon...
Layzer says that in his spare time this summer after writing a book on Cosmology, after starting a book on Chance and Order, after revising his course Science A-22 "Chance, Order, and Necessity," he will try to reread the Proust trilogy. He didn't comment on his work for the summer...
...request from Taiwan for advanced F-5G jet fighters. Although the President later tried to mollify the Chinese by proposing instead to extend coproduction of the less sophisticated F-5E jets, he irritated Peking by sending Congress a proposal last month to sell $60 million worth of military spare parts to Taiwan...