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Coconut industry suffers as prices reduce
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Colombo, Dec. 18 -- Coconut cultivators in several areas of the country are perturbed about the declining prices of coconuts. They pointed out that the coconut industry would face a serious crisis if the situation is allowed to go on unchecked.
Coconut cultivators are facing hardships for want of a remunerative market while on the other hand consumers are jubilant over the drop in prices. About 364,700 hectares of coconut, being cultivated in Puttalam, Kurunegala and Gampaha districts of the coconut triangle are endangered due to the ...
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51st Highland heroes of El Alamein plan reunion
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...60th anniversary of their victory at El Alamein. The decision comes after the Ministry...their defeat of the Afrika Korps at El Alamein when the so- called Desert Rats...than 8,000 taken prisoner. After El Alamein, Montgomery insisted that the Highland...
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Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. By Niall Barr. (Woodstock, N...531. $35.00.) The Battle of El Alamein has attracted the recent attention...events, and men. Barr presents El Alamein as a structure of watersheds. El...
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El Alamein, the people's battle: Michael Paris describes the film record of the North African victory, and how the footage represents a tour de force in terms of wartime documentary and national effort.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Finally, at the third Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, the British Eighth...would drive the Axis from Africa. El Alamein was the turning point in North Africa...visual memory of the war. But why is El Alamein so clearly remembered? Certainly...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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El Alamein's new battle ...to turn into the Egyptian Algarve; In 1942 it witnessed an epic military clash. Now, says John Carter, the Western Desert is fighting to lure an army of tourists, REVIEW.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...the Commonwealth War Cemetery at El Alamein. We weren't in Egypt's Western...comfort of a five-star hotel. El Alamein's place in military history should...What must be explained first is why El Alamein is as strategically important today...
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El Alamein revisited.(Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of el Alamein)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of el Alamein. Niall Barr. Jonathan Cape...impression that after falling back to El Alamein, we were cowed and defeated. Then...and this was vital. By the end of El Alamein, however, fire was becoming less...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...Mirror reporter and granddaughter of El Alamein veteran Jack Smith IN a dusty strip...the Essex Regiment, had been in El Alamein, Egypt, fighting Rommel's mighty...weekend for the 60th anniversary of El Alamein and the Commonwealth's last official...
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Veterans remember El Alamein
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
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Veterans return to El Alamein 60 years on
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; VETERANS of the battle of El Alamein gathered in Egypt yesterday to mark...emotional" ceremony tomorrow at El Alamein, 60 miles west of Alexandria. Mr...been driven back to the village of El Alamein. Montgomery, a veteran of the First...
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Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal
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German Army falls at El Alamein.(Heritage)
Magazine article from: Spokesman Magazine
; ...the Libyan desert to the hamlet of El Alamein near the Egyptian border not far...that Rommel's army had reached El Alamein exhausted and in bad need of recuperation...Desert Fox had placed his troops near El Alamein where the front stretched 40 miles...
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