The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] the reports I read of the shooting down by the Iranians of the Ukrainian airliner referred to the occasion in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided- missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] to serve his sentence. We had not seen each other since Dorothy’s funeral. We dined at Yenching Palace, a well-known Chinese restaurant in Washington where the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was 43 See for example . : ‘A long and involved explanation; a thing of which an explanation would be long and involved.’ […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 29 Available from . 9 30 Twixt lip and cup (or something) A classic of the headline–and–text–differing genre was on the Daily Mail site of […]

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