Each Person Going About Kerm Business as the British Flotilla Nears the Falklands

Dear Fellow Earthlings,

On the 12th of April 1982 United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig was back in London on his shuttle diplomacy attempt to forestall the onset of out and out hostilities between the United Kingdom and Argentina. I was in Japan at this time, busy running my rather small (50 students) English conversation school. Between classes I would turn on the radio to hear the latest news about the Falklands situation. I was happy to learn that Japan had become the newest country to impose trade sanctions against Argentina as a response to that country's invasion of the Falkland Islands. The Argentines were making a mess out of their occupation. They were sending hugs amounts of food to the Falklands but did not have the proper equipment or storage facilities to unload the food from their ships or to store it before it spoiled. That's why the Argentine troops were now resorting to stealing the local people's chickens, catching as many stray cats as they could, and begging for food (and for cigarettes, too!) from the Falkland Islanders. As for the Islanders, they would have been subsisting on whatever they had purchased just prior to the invasion. So they would soon have to start rationing -- and would be unable to provide their uninvited guests from the South American constinent with food. Steve Walker Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

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