— What would brokenhearted Lindsay have to say about the goings-on at this outpost of fish and chips?
That's what it may come to for this outpost on the next frontier of development, where the steady march of sprawl is grinding to a halt because the wells have run dry.
"There's never a perfect answer," General McChrystal said as he visited this outpost on April 8 for a briefing as the withdrawal began.
When the heavy shelling began in August, the Iranians also unleashed infantry attacks on guerrilla positions near this outpost but were beaten back, the guerrillas say.
Nothing would please him more, Francesco Sottile said, than to have Fiat plunk down a huge plant and start churning out cars in this outpost on the arch of the Italian boot.
MOISÉS VILLE, Argentina — At its height in the 1940s, this outpost on Argentina's grasslands had four synagogues for a population of 5,000, a theater for Yiddish-language acting troupes, a newspaper filled with feverish debates about the creation of the state of Israel and saloons where Jewish gauchos galloping in from the pampas could nurse a drink alongside fellow cowhands.
The hospitals are closing in on this little outpost.
"In the end some good may come of the whole episode," she told the Observer on Friday afternoon, as the last glimmer of daylight disappeared across the water on this northernmost outpost of Britain.
ON this Pacific outpost, 2,200 miles west of the South American coast, hundreds of us have gathered, exchanging warm greetings and catching up on life since we last saw one another — in the Galápagos five years ago, or in Zambia nine years ago, or in Papua New Guinea 16 years ago.
Having fought bravely and loyally for king and empire in two world wars, they have never shaken the belief that they were used as cannon fodder when Britain and Francee) launched a disastrous attack on this strategic outpost of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
