Word: falklands
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Israelis, remembering that the U.S. and Britain limited press coverage of the Grenada and Falkland Island invasions, ask defensively why Israel should hesitate to do the same in the West Bank. The analogy blurs the line between the secrecy needs of combat operations and those of policing civil unrest, but the idea of shutting out the press has got a sympathetic hearing in elite quarters. Last month former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was quoted as telling a group of American Jewish leaders that the "insurrection must be quelled immediately, and the first step is to throw out television...
Dallas Real Estate Man Anthony Gange is trying to coax the corrections department into buying an unfinished 108-room mansion owned by followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, onetime spiritual mentor of the Beatles. Asking price: $2.9 million. Houston Salvage Operator George Walsh is hawking one of Britain's Falkland Islands barges, currently in the South Atlantic, for $6 million. The U.S. Government has offered to stash miscreants on offshore oil- drilling platforms...
...team of archaeologists led by a Harvard faculty member sailed to the Falkland Islands earlier this month to salvage what was left of the only known surviving clipper ship, discovered in a harbor by accident eight years...
...Dean returned to the Argentinian islands with Yalouris, who became interested in the project. The pair, avoiding combat in the area from the Falkland war by 10 days, returned to the U.S. to recruit a team of archaeologists to help them raise the ship from under 10 feet of water...
Argentina last week proposed an end to hostilities and a resumption of normal diplomatic relations if Britain would lift a 150-mile protective zone around the Falkland Islands that keeps out Argentine ships. Argentina also wanted to discuss the sovereignty of the British-held Falklands (pop. 2,000), which Argentina claims and calls Las Malvinas...