Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town meeting began exactly at 8 p.m. in the dimly lighted white clapboard auditorium overlooking Port Stanley's harbor. In the chair was Councilor Terry Peck, 45, an earnest, stocky plumber and former police chief who dutifully jotted notes on the proceedings. But the residents of the tiny capital (pop. 1,050) of the Falkland Islands were not getting together simply to discuss the local issues that bedevil most small communities. One man asked when the town gym, which is now occupied by British soldiers, would be open to the public again. Another grumbled about the military trucks that...
...saviors with cheers and tears. But now, with 4,300 British servicemen stationed on the islands, the 1,800 Falklanders have become painfully aware that life will never again be as it was before the early morning of April 2, when 150 Argentines suddenly landed on a beach near Port Stanley. That is a sad realization for the "kelpers," as the natives proudly call themselves, after the seaweed that grows abundantly in their waters. Says Steve Whitely, 33, a veterinarian who emigrated from Scotland seven years ago: "Before the war, it was so quiet. You knew everybody...
Hunt predicts that life will return to normal once all the soldiers are moved into military accommodations. Prefab wooden camps are being built outside Port Stanley, while the first "coastel," a barge stacked with metal freighter containers and able to house 930 men, has been installed. Construction of a new "strategic airport" that will be able to handle jumbo jets is scheduled to begin in October. Because no flights are allowed from Argentina, the Falklands are even more isolated than they were before the war. Visitors arriving by air must take a slow, cumbersome C-130 Royal Air Force Hercules...
...dagai for the bushfires. Fact is, I got stuck in New York with this sheila I met on the plane, watching a preview of a TV series the Yanks made of The Thorn Birds-you know, the novel by Colleen McCullough that Auntie Pat was reading before the port got her. Long as a snake's liver and all about this priest (Richard Chamberlain) and a girl named Meggie (Rachel Ward) on a station (or ranch, as they call it here) who get a big thing for one another and keep simmering away for about 35 years, slinging...
...painter from northern Italy visited that port twice, each time on the run: from a murder charge in Rome in 1606-07, and from the vengeance of the Knights of Malta in 1609-10. He never set up a proper studio with assistants in Naples; he took no pupils, held no salon and had little talent as a courtier. Yet by word of mouth, force of reputation and the example of four or five paintings he executed there, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio completely changed the face of Neapolitan painting at the start of the 17th century. A few months after...