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...prosecutor put it, "contaminated by half-truths and shot through with utter lies." A Cyprus hotel where a sex party was said to have taken place, for example, had not yet been built at the time of the alleged incident. One of the servicemen was in the Falkland Islands when he was said to have been taking part in the Cyprus orgies...
Some nations see the Soviet practice of underbidding liner conferences, which are legally accepted price-fixing cartels, as deliberately predatory. When Britain took the Queen Elizabeth II out of commercial service to send troops to the Falkland Islands in 1982, the Soviets moved in and in two years upped their share of the British cruise market from 10% to 42%. In France, about 80% of imported oil is carried by Soviet tankers, while French ships transport less than 1%. Even the Japanese have been hurt. Since 1981, the Soviets have snatched an estimated 10% of the cargo trade between Japan...
...cover. For a 1975 account of the making of Jaws, his first megahit, the cover honors went to Bruce, the mechanical great white shark. A second, planned cover, in 1982, heralding E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Poltergeist, was bumped at the last minute when British troops landed on the Falkland Islands, though a long story ran inside. In the three years since E.T., notes Senior Writer Richard Corliss, who wrote both this week's cover story and the 1982 piece, Spielberg has become even more successful and influential. "He is Hollywood's most powerful mini- mogul," says Corliss. "With...
...gray and chilly morning last week, a Royal Air Force Lockheed L-1011 TriStar became the first wide-bodied passenger jet to land on the Falkland Islands, marking the start of regular air service from London. Then Britain's Prince Andrew officially opened the islands' still unfinished Mount Pleasant airport. Almost half the Falklands' 1,850 residents jostled for a view of the royal occasion; there was even a 10-ft.-long commemorative cake. But some of the reactions to the $345 million airport were not as sweet as the cake...
Among the defendants charged with crimes including illegal arrests, torture and murder: ex-Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopold Galtieri, the architect of Argentina's disastrous war with Britain for control of the Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas. Last week, Alfonsin said the trial was "of such importance that in my view it will end 50 years of democratic frustration and national decadence...