Word: ushuaia
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...only North American journalist allowed to remain south of Buenos Aires after military restrictions were placed on the southern coast, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter spent five days in Ushuaia (pop. 10,000), the world's southernmost town. There he encountered surprising warmth and civility from a people whose nation was at war. But all that ended on April 30, when the U.S. declared its support for Britain. McWhirter was ordered to leave for Buenos Aires on the first available flight. He describes his experience...
...daybreak in Ushuaia I was put on a 44-seat air force Fokker turboprop for a mail flight to the coastal bases of Rio Grande and Rio Gallegos. It was the first leg of a three-flight, twelve-hour journey in custody. It was also an edgy and unpleasant experience. My bags were "searched" twice, that being the kindest term for the hostile way in which personal contents can be scornfully tossed, spilled and made to seem like bits of compromising evidence all their own. Why was a "distinguished" American journalist carrying a duffel bag? Why were his shirts rumpled...
Although the foreign press corps in Argentina has swelled to 740, reports from there were distressingly thin. Foreign correspondents were ordered out of the areas closest to the Falklands, and three British journalists, arrested April 13 and charged with being spies, remained in jail in Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world. Reporting was not much easier in Buenos Aires. "The big thing is access," says David Miller, bureau manager of the 27-strong CBS team, "and we just don't have it. In most countries the military will set up show-and-tell sessions. Not here...
...same uneasy stirrings, reports TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, are beginning to affect the faraway town of Ushuaia (pop. 10,000), located 1,450 miles from Buenos Aires at Argentina's extreme southern tip. The bucolic community, which is the site of a major naval base and is now considered to be part of a national security zone, is normally a haven of tolerance where the police chief speaks English and local duty-free stores are filled with Burberry raincoats, Dunhill men's accessories, Mary Quant cosmetics, Pringle woolens, Johnnie Walker Scotch and other British goods. Writes McWhirter...
...niceties of conduct in Ushuaia and elsewhere in Argentina may dwindle further when, and if, British and Argentines square off ashore...