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Fire spread swiftly from the water line to the deck. Landing craft hurried to the Antelope to lift off the crew and transfer them to other ships. More explosions sent sparks and debris high into the air as the frigate burned through the night. At dawn, the hulk was still glowing red, one side ripped open. Finally, hours later, the Antelope sank...
...dimly lit. Out of the silence, a soft voice offered a greeting. Jimmy Carter looked unchanged from the White House days, although perhaps a bit less imposing in heavy blue jeans, black boots and a long-sleeved flannel shirt. He had been working on his memoirs since before dawn, he said. As he sat in an easy chair, smiling warmly, he spoke with that familiar instructive manner, still wary and somehow aloof, his gentle mien always at odds with the ambition and defiance that surely cooked inside him. He had not mellowed much...
Agrarian reform, because there is nothing better than a mountain, a hut and a new dawn...
...Less than a day after the Corporation voted to retain its stock in the Gulf Corporation and abstained on a shareholder resolution calling on that company to detail its operations in Angola, some two dozen Black students seized Massachusetts Hall. President Bok's workplace for under a year. The dawn raid touched off a peaceful occupation that was to last a week--and the repercussions of which reflected in Harvard's approach to crisis management and crisis forestallment, remain with us today...
...there was any doubt that the British were prepared to use force decisively to retake the Falklands, it was dispelled on April 25. At dawn's first light, more than 100 members of M Company, 42nd Commando, of the Royal Marines were landed on remote and mountainous South Georgia Island, a British dependency some 800 miles east of the Falklands. By 6 that evening, Prime Minister Thatcher was able to enjoin Britons to "rejoice, rejoice," as she and Defense Secretary John Nott announced the recapture of their first objective in the South Atlantic without a single British casualty. Fighting...