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That was wishful thinking. The next skirmish in the contest of wills was already set to take place in Scotland, where a Soviet vessel was expected to pick up the first six U.S.-designed turbines ordered from Britain's John Brown Engineering Ltd. The British, like the French, are taking a hard line, demanding that their pipeline suppliers ignore the U.S. ban. Said a senior British official: "We are not going to be bullied by Washington...
...bands played, and no crowds cheered, as 593 Argentine soldiers returned home under tight security last week aboard the British ferryboat St. Edmund. The diesel-powered vessel discharged its human cargo, the last of some 11,000 prisoners taken by Britain in the Falkland Islands war, on a windswept dock in out-of-the-way Puerto Madryn, 650 miles south of Buenos Aires. One of the first down the gangplank was General Mario Benjamin Menendez, army commander in the Falklands, who saddened many of his countrymen when he surrendered to Britain's Major General John Jeremy Moore. Military authorities...
...finishing complex jobs on time and under budget, Bechtel has occasionally stumbled. Some employees were publicly involved in a bribery scheme ten or twelve years ago over the construction of a New Jersey pipeline. The firm was further embarrassed in 1977, when it installed a 420-ton nuclear-reactor vessel backwards at a San Onofre, Calif., power plant...
Nicholson watched men dive into the burning waters with life jackets to rescue their comrades. Helicopters ignored the fire and smoke to hoist men out. Spotting life rafts drifting back into the blaze around the Sir Galahad, four helicopter pilots flew behind the vessel and turned their aircraft into gigantic fans: flying low, they used the downdraft of their rotor blades to push the rubber rafts to the safety of the beach. Ashore, all was chaos as casualties were brought to a makeshift field hospital and then flown by a continuous helicopter shuttle to the main British medical center...
...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. The latter has already offered Argentina military support. A Peruvian navy vessel, attempting to take delivery of eight Exocets in France two weeks ago, was informed by French officials that the missiles were unavailable for "technical reasons." France has embargoed sales of the missile to Argentina...