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...French firm whose Exocet air-to-surface missile was responsible for one of the biggest British setbacks of the ten-week war. Argentina used the weapon to sink the destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield, which went down in the South Atlantic on May 4, 1982, with a loss of 20 seamen. Aerospatiale bought a page in The Economist (estimated circ. 252,000), which usually costs about $5,650, to dispute recent reports that the Exocet is not really the devastating ship killer Britons had come to revile. On the contrary, boasted Aérospatiale heartily, "Exocet is and remains the leader...
...March. In recent months, however, a number of publications, quoting military analysts, have charged that the missile often misses its target and that its 363-lb. warhead frequently fails to explode on impact. Aerospatiale had endured such criticism in silence, the ad indicated, partly out of "respect for the seamen who lost their lives during the fighting." Now, however, the firm could wait no longer to refute the "inaccurate information ... to set the record straight...
...think he's done a good job as far as helping the seamen around here. I don't see anything wrong with him," agrees a secretary at a Christian Science reading room in New Bedford...
...sailors crisscrossing the northern reaches of the Sea of Japan last week had a name for the risky face-offs: "chicken of the sea." The seamen were aboard a seven-ship U.S. task force that was systematically sweeping a 350-sq.-mi. area of the cold, choppy international waters slightly more than twelve miles from the Soviet Union's Moneron Island and 100 miles northeast of Japan. Hard by the U.S. ships-and sometimes directly under their bows-was a fleet of as many as 40 Soviet vessels, including a missile cruiser, oceanographic ships, trawlers and specialized salvage ships...
...swords or even to wear their traditional topknots. When the samurai rose in revolt, they were suppressed by new armies of conscripts (whom the French were training). With conscription came the French system of compulsory universal education. British shipyards began building Japanese warships, and the Royal Navy trained Japanese seamen as officers...