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HIGH DRAMA ON THE HIGH SEAS!

…The Falkland Islands are back in the headlines.

…Scheduled cruise ship stop to its capital, Port Stanley, canceled.

…Argentines protest.

“If you go ashore, I’ll leave you there!” yells the Captain to the angry audience, as he tries to explain decision. “It’s the weather,” he cries over the shouts of “Las Malvinas son nuestras!” (The Falklands are ours!) Tempers flare. Americans are befuddled by Argentine anger. 

“I only wanted to see the penguins,” says Mrs Ralph Jenkins of Bowling Green, Illinois who best sums up American response to not stopping in at the islands. She doesn’t recall the events of 1982 and the Falklands war between the United Kingdom and Argentina nor the sinking of the Argentine battleship General Belgrano.

…This just in: Three other ships have docked in Port Stanley today!

Passengers are in an uproar! Liar! Liar! echoes throughout the auditorium. Shouts and mayhem ensue. Objects fly and security descends to quell the mob. The Captain is rushed off the stage and back to the safety of the bridge where it’s all steam ahead back to the home port of Buenos Aires.

…This is Teddy Anders with The News that Moves reporting from the South Atlantic on board the SS Norwegian Star...