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...into the ways Britain might fight its difficult war in the Falklands. Even as Foreign Secretary Pym conferred in Washington with Secretary of State Haig on April 22 about a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis, as many as a dozen members of Britain's elite Special Boat Squadron, an ultra-secret frogman-commando unit, had slipped quietly ashore on the island. Their mission was to scout Argentine troop emplacements and estimate the size of the opposing force. The scouts reported that the Argentine troops at the South Georgia harbor of Grytviken, the site of an abandoned whaling station...
...just risen when a squadron of Air Force C-130's and C-141 Starlifters appeared over the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin, Calif., some 130 miles northeast of Los Angeles. From three landing zones on the desert floor, plumes of colored smoke began to rise. At that go-ahead signal, the sky blossomed with parachutes as 2,300 troops of the elite 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., began the first phase of operation Gallant Eagle '82, a massive $45 million mock invasion by the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force. It was one of the largest...
...extending beyond these reasons. Williams has a commitment to undergraduate education because undergraduates "are an extremely remarkable bunch of people who do so many things simultaneously and do them all well." As a result, Williams has developed a small squadron of undergraduates, led by Lou L. Safranck '74--"my chief deputy" as Williams refers to him--who himself started his association with Williams 12 years ago as a freshman...
Then Major Biestek took command in the way he knows best: airpower. With recruits from a local model airplane club, he sent up a squadron of a dozen remote-controlled planes to engage the starlings in dogfights. Said Biestek: "When you saw a flock coming in, you just aimed an airplane at it. The airplanes have a very high fright index. We got rid of well over 95% of the birds." The starlings were only scared to death, not actually dead; no bird casualties have been confirmed. But five of Biestek's planes were downed, two permanently...
...bunnysuits suddenly appear, highstepping wildly to the strains of Yes, Yes, My Baby Said Yes, Yes. And when a sweetly-lisping Eileen loses control of her rowdy charges, she miraculously dons a long silver-lame dress and launches into Love is Good for Anything that Ails You, as her squadron of toddlers tapdances behind her on rows of white pianos. Instead of actually singing, though, Eileen and her chorus mouth the words to an original version of the 30's hit. All the songs in the film are done this way, and it adds a bizarre twist to Arthur...