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...blitzkrieg last week in the embattled Falkland Islands. Members of Britain's Parachute Regiment moved rapidly out of their hard-won corner of East Falkland near the settlement of Port San Carlos, taken by invasion only a week earlier, and descended 20 miles south near the settlement of Darwin. Using helicopters to hop across the boggy ground, the crack British troops confronted an Argentine garrison once estimated at about 600. There were reports of sharp fighting, and then the British Defense Ministry tersely announced that Her Majesty's troops had captured both Darwin and the neighboring settlement of Goose Green...
...Buenos Aires, the government of Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri was slow to admit the recapture of Darwin or the general thrust of the British advance. Instead, the junta announced that a raid by British troops in helicopters had been repelled at Darwin, near Goose Green, the second largest settlement in the sparsely populated Falklands, and that a Harrier had been shot down at Port Stanley. Insisted Brigadier General Basilic Lami Dozo, commander of the Argentine air force: "The battle is going well for us. We have our capacity intact...
...farmer in San Carlos said, "The Argies used to give sweets to the kids and ask them if there were British soldiers in the area." He also reports that the Argentine soldiers told the citizens that henceforth Port Stanley was to be called Porto Argentina, and the settlement of Darwin, Belgrano, after the sunk cruiser. That was about the extent of their impositions. Still, there was some passive resistance to the Argentines by the residents. No one would tell the invaders, for instance, how to turn on the water for the toilet in the new school hostel...
...know the best way to Stanley is to proceed south, over the Sussex Mountains (about 900 ft. high), and the British forces have shown they know it too. The road is boggy on the tops of the hills, but once over, the clay track is solid. Then down toward Darwin and to the larger Goose Green, which in normal times consists of some 103,000 sheep and 100 people...
...reason or another, travel to China last year is sure to go this year. A tour bus runs down nearly every street in the global village. When does travel degenerate into snobbism or a stunt? Lars-Eric Lindblad, impresario of the edifyingly exotic, takes the vacationing bartender where Darwin most remotely went...