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During the 1973 war, Richard Nixon privately warned the government of Golda Meir not to cut off food and water to 20,000 trapped Egyptian soldiers. But it was not until 1975 that relations were once again seriously strained. Angered over Israel's intransigence in the negotiations for troop withdrawals from the Sinai, Gerald Ford dramatically announced a "reassessment" of U.S. policies in the Middle East and suspended consideration of Israel's request for $2.5 million...
...troopers of the Queen's Household Cavalry as they left their barracks for the daily mounting of the guard at Whitehall. Resplendent in blue tunics, white buckskin breeches and silver-colored breastplates, the tips of their unsheathed swords jauntily resting on their right shoulders, the colorful 16-man troop trotted along Hyde Park's South Carriage Drive while admiring tourists lolled in the grass and snapped pictures. The cavalrymen never reached their destination. At 10:43, just as the regiment's scarlet-and-gold standard came alongside a parked blue Morris Marina sedan, a deafening explosion ripped...
Such distortions, unsettling enough in the abstract, in practical terms undermined Crile and Adams' often substantial case. In one instance of sleight of hand, Westmoreland was shown apparently acknowledging awareness of a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington at which military officers allegedly pared down enemy troop estimates to stay be low a ceiling of 300,000. But Westmoreland's remarks were directed to an entirely different meeting that took place in Saigon. For his part, the general has claimed that he was sandbagged by Wal lace and Crile, that he was not informed in detail about what...
...British are feeling feisty and bold from the success of their Falklands ad venture. In a survey conducted by the Economist, 71% of the those polled would support tax increases to keep a garrison indefinitely in the Falklands. The government is ready to station as many as 3,000 troops on the islands at a cost estimated at $37 million per month. British defense planners are now mulling over the upgrading of the country's naval forces, which had been badly depleted by prior-year retrenchments. To mount its assault, Britain had to requisition civilian luxury liners like...
Trying to retake the Falklands, the British task force needed three kinds of warplanes: a naval interceptor to protect the fleet, a ground-attack aircraft to soften up enemy defenses on the islands, and an agile troop-support plane to cover British forces as they advance from their bridgehead toward the main Argentine garrison at Port Stanley. All those roles have been filled by what the British regard as their magnificent flying machine: the Sea Harrier, a vertical short-takeoff and landing jet whose maneuverability and advanced avionics have made it more than a match for the land-based attack...