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Argentina, which waged a losing war against Britain for control of the Falkland Islands in 1982, now wants to buy them. Argentine Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella said his government was prepared to offer the more than 2,000 Falklanders up to $800,000 per inhabitant. The British government says the islanders have a right to self-determination, but the Falklands' governor insists they will not sell their nationality...
...policy debates of do-gooders are a world away from Bombay's Falkland Road district, where 8,000 prostitutes are packed into rabbit-warren brothels. There, on a hot, listless afternoon, Manju flashes an inviting smile, beckoning passersby with lewd remarks and suggestive body movements. With the fair skin and lovely slanted eyes of the Nepalese, so exotic to Indian men, she attracts an average of seven customers a day. Her fee: $1 each -- of which the brothel owner, a squat, brutal woman, takes more than half. Despite her sexy put-on, her shiny blue dress cut above the knee...
...Monday morning like any other at the pastoral Port Howard Farm on West Falkland Island. Several shepherds roam the 200,000-acre spread in Land Rovers and on motorbikes, tending the 45,000 woolly residents. In the main house, farm owner Robin Lee, 42, checks over farm accounts and sips a final cup of tea before making the weekly commute to his desk job in the capital city of Port Stanley. When the call comes signaling that his ride is en route, Lee drives the short stretch to a grassy landing strip, arriving in time to make sure...
...locals, or kelpers as they call themselves, have gained far more than they have lost. In the mid-1980s, the British government spent $1 billion to build a military base on the main island of East Falkland, where 2,000 troops are now garrisoned along with five Phantom fighter-bombers. London also earmarked more than $54 million for a development program that so far has furnished the islands with an improved water system, a new hospital and their first graded road, 35 miles long. At the same time, residents were encouraged to buy plots of land previously controlled by large...
Previously, Carrington had been foreign secretary under then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but had resigned soon after Britain became involved in the Falkland Islands conflict...