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...pout of rejection." "None of this made the town of Portsmouth visibly interesting, because nothing could." "I saw that Dawlish was small and dull." "Every house was identical, and equally ugly." "I saw British people lying stiffly on the beach like dead in sects." "I came to hate Aberdeen more than any other place I saw." "Up close, Deny was frightful." "I decided that I had seen few places on earth more depressing than Strobane in the rain." "If I had only one word to describe the expression of Eng land's face I would have said: insulted...
Robert Christison Aberdeen, Scotland 60th Anniversary
...eyes of Hong Kong's 5.5 million nervous residents, has never seemed more in need of clarification. From the luxurious mountaintop mansions of "the peak" to the factory floors of Kowloon, from the shimmering office towers of the business district to the wretched squatter camps near Aberdeen, the consuming topic of conversation nowadays is what exactly will happen to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997. That is the date when more than 90% of Hong Kong's land area, the 373-sq.-mi. New Territories, will revert to China under the terms of the 99-year lease that...
...portion of the country, blackouts had become common as a precaution against air raids, and schoolchildren drilled for attacks by crouching beneath their desks. The government appealed for "patriotic" financial contributions to the war effort from the public and received more than $20 million in cash and valuables, including Aberdeen Angus steers and Mercedes-Benz automobiles...
Muammar Gaddafi is a dangerous man. The alleged plot to kill President Reagan and other top officials is perfectly consistent with Gaddafi's character. But to be fair, I must disagree with Aberdeen University Professor Paul Wilkinson's comment, which implied that Libya is the first sovereign nation since World War II to plot the assassination of a head of state. For better or for worse, it is well documented that the CIA attempted more than once during the 1960s to eliminate Cuba's Fidel Castro...