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...aides in London were calling a "little local difficulty." But suddenly the fight became all too real. Some 2,500 Argentine troops, backed by an aircraft carrier, three missile destroyers and other warships, swooped down on a scattering of chilly South Atlantic islands. Waiting helplessly near the settlement of Port Stanley was a defense force consisting of a mere 40 British Royal Marines. After three hours of sporadic gunfire, in which one invader was killed and two others were wounded, the battle was over. Argentine forces also invaded the island of South Georgia. The British announced that a small contingent...
Japanese merchants have had a toehold on the U.S. gram trade since the 1950s, when they first set up export offices in West Coast port cities like San Francisco and Seattle to buy foodstuffs for Japan. The island nation of 116 million people is a principal grain importer and now buys some $6 billion a year from the U.S., its biggest supplier. In 1973, after a grain shortage squeezed the worldwide market for soybeans, a major Japanese grain import from the U.S., the anxious Japanese traders began moving inland to buy directly from farmers in an effort to secure...
...team will be staying in Bristol, a port town in the southern eastern corner of England--just one hour away from most of the team's matches. Bristol is the same town in which Harvard's rughy team will be staying during part of its four "We should be meeting up at all the pubs," said Smith...
...Fortunate Traveller moves between the civilized U.S. and subjugated, sunstruck islands. Walcott can find a lasting home in neither place. In the U.S. he catches signs of "the galloping hysterical abhorrence of my race." In Port of Spain, he discovers that "junta and coup d'état, the newest Latino mood/ broods on the balcony." He takes on the identity of Spoiler, a dead man allowed briefly to leave hell and revisit his old haunts. He improvises, calypso style...
...Port of Spain is a twelve-thirty show...