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...British task force set sail for the Falklands with 20 Sea Harriers. After a few losses, three replacements were hastily dispatched, and additional reinforcements of 18 Harriers arrived in time for the San Carlos landing. These planes have provided the task force's only cover against an Argentine force that numbered some 230 planes at the outset of hostilities...
...true that if the Social Security system can somehow stay afloat through the '80s, it will sail into calmer waters for a long period beginning around 1990. For one thing, a 1% tax increase-half a point each on workers and employers-goes into effect that year. For another, the number of people retiring from 1990 through the rest of the century will be held down by the low birth rates of the Depression and World War II years. Meanwhile, members of the 1946-64 baby-boom generation will be hard at work, presumably earning rising incomes and paying...
...sheets of particle board were used to cover paneled walls and carpeting. Truckloads of such rations as chocolate and ice cream, as well as an estimated 100,000 pints of beer, were being loaded aboard. With the refitting going on day and night, the liner could be ready to sail by midweek. About a third of the ship's regular crew of more than 700 was expected to sign up for the hazardous trip south, with pay jumping 150% once the ship sails seven degrees beyond the equator. The man at the helm will be the ship...
...British were even luckier that a substantial portion of the Royal Navy was participating in NATO exercises off Gibraltar at the time of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. This meant that a number of vessels, almost certainly including a nuclear submarine, were stocked, manned and ready to sail. It also meant that some of the ships were already as much as 1,000 miles from the British Isles along the route to the South Atlantic...
...answer to lunacy than a technique for exposing it. In every work he manages to reduce history to a wild nightmare from which one wakes up laughing. In his latest novel, with a nod to Jonathan Swift, grand master of the savage laugh and the surreal voyage, Lind sets sail on one of his most inspired trips...