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...sudden spate of attacks, British warplanes swept in over Port Stanley, the Falklands' tiny capital, and struck at the 4,000-ft. airstrip held since Argentina invaded the islands on April 2. First came a long-range, delta-winged Vulcan bomber from a base at Ascension Island, some 3,800 miles away. The Vulcan refueled in the air on the way to its target, dropped 21 half-ton bombs and, said a British defense official in London, left the airfield "severely cratered...
Unaccustomed to assistance from terrorists, some officials wonder if the jailed Red Brigades may actually be spreading false information in order to confuse their captors. Cesare di Lenardo, a duro arrested in the Dozier kidnaping, accused the police of using torture to extract information. More likely, the spate of confessions is due in part to a proposed new law that could reduce the sentence of cooperative prisoners found guilty of murder or kidnaping to as little as twelve years. Most of the information provided by the terrorists has proved accurate...
...called a depression. One reason is psychological: as bad economic news persists, the word depression moves out of the twilight zone into public discussion, just possibly to the point of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Administration's putdown of depression was prompted in part by a spate of articles in newspapers like the Washington Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Wall Street Journal that have discussed just such a possibility...
...fascinating embryonic glimpse of the themes, characters and even scenes that occur in such other Pinter plays as The Birthday Party, The Caretaker (which is currently being given a spotty revival at Manhattan's Roundabout Theater) and The Homecoming. Even more startlingly, this skillfully articulated drama prefigures the spate of British plays (notably Peter Nichols' The National Health) that have dwelt on the inner chancre of an impotent Britain's decline and decay...
...upcoming work schedule will not be without another spate of community protests. But despite the inevitable symbolic display the NOMATEP coalition shows signs of cracking. The group which originally claimed to represent thousands of concerned citizens and to speak for more than 100 organizations nationwide still packs a living room on occasion, but many members say the fight has been long and frustrating, with no satisfying results. They feel their efforts won only a little extra time before health catastrophe. "What we were trying to do was prove this is a harmful thing before the damage," coalition member Charlotte Ploss...