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...with 600-lb. cluster bombs, while 4.5-in. guns on Royal Navy frigates and destroyers added their drumbeat of fire. As the week began, the dense, rain-filled clouds that shrouded Port Stanley seemed to be the only barrier to a full-scale attack. But Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward and Major General John Jeremy Moore, the two commanders to whom Prime Minister Thatcher had entrusted the final decision on how to take Port Stanley, were apparently also eager to avoid a military bloodbath. They were especially worried about the safety of the 250 to 400 Falkland Islanders still believed...
...psychological backlash against the press has also helped Nixon. From the moment that Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward began their pursuit of Watergate in the Washington Post, some Americans have subscribed to the theory that a liberal press was out to undo the results of the 1972 Nixon landslide. The implications of that belief are troubling: they carry the suggestion of a sort of cultural civil war, between Nixon's America and a suspect elite that trafficks mostly in information and services...
...conduct of the press after Woodward and Bernstein could only help Nixon's side of the argument. Watergate beatified the press; it gave reporters a model and an ambition. It made them zealous, fierce to expose, hungry to bring back trophies. A certain bloodlust went through the profession. Public officials, even the most obscure, knew that young reporters would go over their lives like flesh-eating birds. That knowledge has served to deplete the ranks of men and women willing to serve in government. Watergate helped to destroy the boundary between public and private life. Says University of Chicago...
...spectacle of the rewards bestowed after the fall. Some of the miscreants of Watergate have profited handsomely. But of John they have had all of those legal fees to cover. John Dean commands $2,000 to $3,500 on the lecture platform. He sometimes shares the stage with Bob Woodward. But if the soci ety bestows fame and wealth upon people forced out of government in disgrace, what virtues are being proclaimed? How do we then say that the system worked? The phenomenon is comparable to noting that, in an economic sense, Japan and Germany emerged as the winners...
...attack. That problem was compounded by the fundamental weakness of the task force: its lack of adequate air cover and of an early-warning system like the U.S. AWACS aircraft. With only 36 Harrier jets aboard the armada's aircraft carriers, Hermes and Invincible, Task Force Commander John "Sandy" Woodward had to take the chance of using missile-bearing warships as part of his frontline antiaircraft defense. His tactic: to establish a British naval "gun line" around the vulnerable assault ships, supply vessels and troopships that actually carried out the landing...