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...when they arrived. They met an unexpectedly formidable enemy: the foul South Atlantic winter, which claimed lives and aircraft and often made fighting impossible. The war's major weapons, as expected, were missiles. Yet some of the most advanced models stumbled: Argentina's air-to-ship Exocets sank the destroyer Sheffield but usually missed their mark, and Britain's ground-to-air Rapiers proved unreliable. In the end, it was not technology that won and lost the war, but foot soldiers. Britain's commandos, paratroopers and infantry had to dislodge a well-armed force of defenders...
Earthwatch, a nonprofit scientific research organization based in Belmont, Mass., will send 625 vacationers on expeditions that include a probe of 90-gun H.M.S. Coronation, which sank off Plymouth in 1697, and a dig for Bronze Age artifacts along the Esk River on the Scottish border. Virtually every European country offers at least two or three music festivals, and almost everywhere, every week, there are rumbustious folk festivals, with such attractions as jousting knights, wrestling Tyroleans, strawberry-eating contests, battling bargemen and tootling bands. A country-by-country summary of seasonal highlights...
...mother an opportunity to give to the Parent Fund. The most notable gift to the University from parents who had no other tie to Harvard was from Mr. and Mrs. Widener who put up a library in memory of their son, Harry Elkins '06 who drowned when the Titanic sank...
...impact of the voters' rebuff sank in, Christian Democratic leaders searched for explanations. Was it a one-shot protest or part of a continuing decline? The most prevalent theory blamed voter fatigue with a party that had been unable to deal with the country's worsening economic ills. Over the years, moreover, the Christian Democrats have been tarred by recurring corruption scandals, alleged Mafia connections and, most recently, charges of links with the Naples underworld. Although the Communists opposed NATO's plans to deploy new nuclear missiles in Italy and other West European countries later this year...
...fresh troops got there, and the first thing you saw when you got to the States was the barefoot girls in their summer dresses pedaling bicycles past the sea. In your jacket you carried a photograph of the soldier that had been you, a keepsake of the afternoon you sank your boots firmly in the sand that slopes into the Mediterranean that lies beside Beirut. In the photograph you looked older than the cliché-older than the hills. You would fetch the picture from your pocket if the leggy girls truly wanted to see. But the girls you wanted...