Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Movimiento Nueva Argentina climbed aboard a night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio Gallegos in Argentina's far south. Shortly before the DC-4 was due to land, they pulled pistols and burp guns out of their suit cases, ordered the pilot to change course for Port Stanley, capital of the Falk land Islands. If all went according to plan, they figured, they would land about dawn, surprise the British Governor and police chief in their beds, and take possession of the islands without firing a shot...
...Governor was away. The plane took longer than expected to get to Port Stanley. And at the last moment, somebody remembered that there was no airstrip anywhere in the islands. So the terrified pilot had to do his best in the mud of a seldom used race track. When the shaken conspirators emerged from the plane, they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of curious islanders, none of whom spoke enough Spanish to understand that they had been conquered by the Argentines...
...elected to stay in the plane. The last straw came when the island's tiny police force politely informed the conspirators that it was against the law to arrest the police chief or capture public buildings. Dismayed, the invaders finally gave themselves up and accepted beds in Port Stanley homes...
Boeing is competing with Lockheed, the world's leading builder of military jet aircraft, for the Government contract to build a U.S. supersonic trans port. Last year, facing a September 1966 deadline for submitting plans to the Government, Boeing discovered that its SST involved some inferior engineering...
Married. Marie-Denise Duvalier, 24, eldest daughter of Haitian Dictator Fran?ois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier; and Jerome Max Dominique, 26, a captain in the Presidential Guard; he for the second time; in Port-au-Prince...