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...week, seeking the proper doors and directions. The center contains Barbican Hall, home of the London Symphony Orchestra, three cinemas, an art gallery, two restaurants and the Barbican Theater, which last week became the new London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, replacing the venerable Aldwych Theater. With a thrust stage, and no seat farther than 65 ft. from the stage, the theater's novelty may be that it has no aisles: playgoers enter their rows from outside the orchestra according to lighted alphabetical letters...
...Commencements. But he says he's been disappoint with the last couple of Commencements speakers. "Watson was just so-so and Vance didn't impress me that much either." he says The highlight at Commencement for Shallow is the student orations: "I always like those. Some of them really thrust into the administration...
...Buenos Aires, the government of Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri was slow to admit the recapture of Darwin or the general thrust of the British advance. Instead, the junta announced that a raid by British troops in helicopters had been repelled at Darwin, near Goose Green, the second largest settlement in the sparsely populated Falklands, and that a Harrier had been shot down at Port Stanley. Insisted Brigadier General Basilic Lami Dozo, commander of the Argentine air force: "The battle is going well for us. We have our capacity intact...
...same devices that give the Harrier its ability to take off vertically also permit it to outmaneuver conventional aircraft by using a technique known as "viffing" (from Vector in Forward Flight). By adjusting his exhaust nozzles to reverse the thrust, the pilot can cause his plane to decelerate rapidly and veer to the side. "You want to smash through the canopy, but the harness tightens over your shoulders, holds you down at the waist. You think you are stopping at 12,000 ft.," wrote British Journalist John Edwards, who was given a demonstration ride in a Harrier last week...
...therefore will do nothing to push Iran into the Soviet orbit. On the other hand, the U.S. strongly favors the survival of Saddam Hussein, who in his quest for Western support has steadily moderated his anti-Israeli and anti-American radicalism. The U.S. probably welcomed Saddam Hussein's thrust into Iran in September 1980, believing it would increase the pressure on Khomeini's revolutionary regime. But the U.S. did not aid Saddam Hussein directly, nor does it plan to do so now. Some U.S. experts argue that Iraq's greatest need at the moment is something nobody...