Word: malta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even more dramatic depredation occurred in 1804, four months after Barbary pirates captured the grounded U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor and clapped her crewmen into prison. Lieut. Stephen ("Our country, right or wrong") Decatur sailed into the port aboard a vessel disguised as a blockade-runner from Malta, boarded Philadelphia and, with a crew of 84, routed the 200 Tripolitan crewmen who had been put aboard. Decatur set Philadelphia ablaze, and just as his aptly named Intrepid darted out of the harbor, the captured ship exploded...
...Less. Of the 22 countries that also cut the value of their money, most were small, sterling-area nations whose fortunes depend on their sales to Britain, or to other devaluing countries. Sixteen precisely matched the 14.3% British devaluation: Barbados, Bermuda, Cyprus, Fiji, Gambia, Guyana, Israel, Ireland, Jamaica, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago. At first, Hong Kong lowered the exchange value of its dollar by a like amount, but the price of food (mostly imported from mainland China) and other goods promptly jumped between 7% and 20%, stirring so much discontent among the crown...
...Valle Grande, a dirt-poor, two-centuryold town of 7,000 people set in rolling hills some 3,000 ft. high. At the airport, it was loaded into a truck and whisked down the narrow dirt and cobblestone streets to the town's Señor de Malta Hospital, run by German Dominican sisters. There four men in white and a nun went to work on Che, opening an incision in his neck for embalming fluid and washing his body. A man in civilian clothes took his fingerprints. A medical examination by Drs. Moises Abraham and Jose Martinez revealed...
...bush, and sullied the prestige of President Joseph Mobutu. Their departure, if it really comes about, is bound to make the Congo a more stable place. Under terms of a document signed by Schramme, the International Red Cross will arrange to have the whites flown to Malta and the blacks sent to Zambia in southern Africa...
...itself. Four years ago, when an unusually severe winter cold snap snuffed out sports events for eleven weeks running, the books closed with a chilly $80,000 annual profit. As a hedge against such disasters, Ladbroke's bankrolled a new casino and hotel complex (run by Sheraton) on Malta. Completed only last July, it is already returning a steady...