Word: del
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote the cover story, was the Buenos Aires-based bureau chief from 1979 to 1981. He found that "Argentines regard the Falklands issue as an article of faith." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on the scene in Buenos Aires for three weeks, headed south to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego; until ordered back to Buenos Aires late last week by the authorities, he had been the only non-Argentine correspondent in the coastal area close to the Falklands after three British journalists were arrested there and charged with espionage. Says he: "Communications out of Argentina were the only real exasperation...
Beagle Channel. War nearly broke out in 1978 over Argentina's claim to three islands held by Chile in the channel south of Tierra del Fuego. Pope John Paul II proposed a plan of settlement to both sides in December 1980. Chile accepted, but Argentina refused...
From dead last, Gato del Sol takes the roses...
Doubles--1. Evans-Schulman (H) d. Sugar Honig, 6-0, 6-0, 2. Kate McCalf-Nancy Stroker (B)d. Pe-Kaufman, 3-6, del. 3. Brown won by default...
...soldiers have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like many Iranians, had been trained in the U.S.; he still wore a breast patch from Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. The Iranians have also worked something of a miracle with the sophisticated American weaponry with which the Shah had built the most feared arsenal in the Persian Gulf. Despite a lack of spare parts, F-4 Phantoms can be seen refueling in midair, and F-5 fighters take...