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...January 20, 1981, two sagas intersect. A few minutes before noon, as spectators on Capitol Hill cluster around portable radios to hear the latest news of the American hostages' release. Ronald Wilson Reagan takes the oath of office to become the 40th President of the United States. One half hour later, as President Reagan's motorcade proceeds up crowded Pennsylvania Avenue, the 52 American hostages who have been held in Iran for 444 days' lift off from Tehran on a flight bound for Algiers...
...flat, humid pampa, as the vast Argentine grasslands around the capital are known, there was still plenty of fierce gaucho pride and patriotism. Those sentiments ran deep in the town of Ranchos (pop. 2,500), a tidy cluster of one-story colonial Spanish houses around a square lined with whitewashed plátano trees, located about 120 miles southeast of Buenos Aires. The sons of two local families were on garrison duty in the Falklands. Renato E. Riva, editor of the town weekly Here Is Ranchos, said that "everyone knows when the families receive letters or a postcard." Fund raising...
...speed as, heavily loaded, they come in low to try to get under the radar. The Harrier fights best low and slow. With its maneuverability, it can stop in midair, hover, veer off sharply in new directions and land on almost any flat surface. Armed with 1,000-lb. cluster bombs for ground attack, and 30-mm guns and U.S.-built AIM-9L Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles, the Sea Harrier has an advanced avionics and radar system that allows it to fly day or night in any weather, unlike Argentina's Mirages and Skyhawks. Says a Harrier flyer...
...seized estates in the wake of the 1974 revolution, the Pontiff issued a rousing call for "fundamental human rights" and better living conditions for rural workers. Afterward, he stepped out into the crowd, pushing through a tight police cordon to shake hands. At one point he beckoned to a cluster of men and women wearing broad-brimmed straw hats and blankets draped over their shoulders. Security broke down completely. John Paul was engulfed in a sea of peasants...
...gaining a crucial edge in its 19-month-long war with Iraq. A fierce battle raged for control of Khorramshahr, the strategic Iranian port city captured by Iraq shortly after the fighting began in September 1980. Some 800 miles to the west, Israeli fighter-bombers attacked a cluster of Palestine Liberation Organization strongholds in central and southern Lebanon, and the P.L.O. responded by sending volleys of artillery into northern Israel. In Jerusalem, one government leader after another declared that the ten-month, U.S.-negotiated cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border had in effect collapsed...