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...barren hills to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina. But these are not the sounds of war. Since last fall almost 700 men have been working up to 14 hours a day blasting through rock at Mount Pleasant, a bleak stretch of high ground 25 miles southwest of Port Stanley, the capital. They are building a new British military base with an 8,500-ft. runway that will be able to accommodate large military aircraft...
...three large "coastels," self-contained floating barracks, each housing up to 930 men. The facilities have mess halls, gymnasiums and a squash court; they purify their own water and generate their own electricity. Says Major General Keith Spacie, commander of the 4,000-to 5,000-man British force: "Port Stanley is not a garrison town. We have got off the Falklanders' backs so they can lead as normal a life as possible...
...Nicaraguan fishing trawlers hit mines while entering the Atlantic port of El Bluff; the Sandinistas promptly issued a proclamation "to the world" blaming the U.S., and the CIA specifically. That statement was not widely noted either. But then mines began going off in the Pacific ports of Corinto and Puerto Sandino, damaging a Dutch cargo vessel, Panamanian, Japanese and Liberian freighters and, on March 20, a Soviet tanker. Moscow had no doubt who was responsible; it accused the U.S. of "piracy...
...crack a seam in the ship, shake things up and knock people around." That is enough to cut off most shipping. "A mine raising spume 50 yds. away," says one official of Nicaragua's Sandinista government, "is enough to make a captain turn around and head to the next port on his list...
...famed defector from the ranks of Nicaragua's Sandinista government. A.R.D.E.'S objective in seizing the settlement was twofold: to secure a toehold on the jungle fringes of Nicaraguan territory as the first step toward winning international recognition as a contra provisional government, and to win a port of entry for military supply...