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...They met an unexpectedly formidable enemy: the foul South Atlantic winter, which claimed lives and aircraft and often made fighting impossible. The war's major weapons, as expected, were missiles. Yet some of the most advanced models stumbled: Argentina's air-to-ship Exocets sank the destroyer Sheffield but usually missed their mark, and Britain's ground-to-air Rapiers proved unreliable. In the end, it was not technology that won and lost the war, but foot soldiers. Britain's commandos, paratroopers and infantry had to dislodge a well-armed force of defenders. But the Argentines...
That is but the short of it. Economically, said one elected Colbert County official who asked, understandably, to keep his name to himself, "liquor has been our salvation." F.E. Draper, the former mayor of Sheffield and the head of the campaign for strong drink, claimed, "We're bringing 2,000 people a day into Colbert County who didn't use to come here, and one of the distributors estimates they're spending $50 each. That...
...city of Sheffield alone, according to City Commissioner David Johnson, liquor has meant "the difference between bankruptcy and not. Out of a budget of $2.5 million, we had a deficit of $500,000 going into 1982. We didn't know where to cut-to stop collecting garbage or what. In the first nine months of 1982 Sheffield got $600,000 from liquor." Johnson reported this calculus over a Manhattan at the Holiday Inn. The manager of that inn, Bob Gore, said his lounge is taking in $90,000 a month and, since liquor became legal, he has booked conventions...
...turn to the bone fossils of last week's off-year election, shocked to learn that while you Alaskans were voting in Governor Bill Sheffield because his opponent Tom Fink wanted to cart the state capital from Juneau to Willow, and while you New Yorkers were voting out Congressman John LeBoutillier because he gave you the creeps, all of you were also sending Ronald Reagan "a message." The message read: reduce unemployment, bring down the deficit. The President was being told what practically all U.S. Presidents are told two years after their chiefdom is hailed: no mandate is forever...
...that means work for residents. With unemployment running at 9.8% nationwide, cities and towns across the U.S. are aggressively wooing potential businesses, including some long considered undesirable, with carefully thought out economic strategies, featuring special tax incentives, novel financing arrangements and eased environmental and zoning requirements. Stanwood, Iowa, and Sheffield, Ill., 'are fighting over a planned $35 million hog-slaughtering facility that would provide 600 jobs and a $10 million annual payroll. Three years ago, Illinois could not find a community that would accept a new medium-security facility to house 750 inmates, even though it would have meant...