BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- William Curtis, a Canadian living on the Falkland Islands, has been expressing more worry about his cow than about the war creeping ever closer to his home, a Canadian embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
'It's funny,' embassy official Neil Brockenshire said.
'We call him to see how he's doing and if he's in danger and he spends most of the time talking about his lost cow.'
Curtis, from Mission, B.C., brought his wife and two children to live in thecapital city of Port Stanley because he feared a nuclear war and believed the Falklands would be one of the safest places in the world. But now British and Argentine forces are fighting only miles from the town.
Brockenshire said Curtis decided to stay on the islands because he has an investment in his home and is starting up a house building company.
'One of the biggest problems he has is the family cow, which was ready to be mated. First they couldn't find a bull and then the cow ran off, apparently scared away by the noise.'
'We're satisfied he's in good health,' Brockenshire said.
Curtis speaks to the Canadian embassy frequently via facilities set up by the Argentine government.
'The family has been careful about what they do and say,' the embassy spokesman said. 'They've adopted a policy of keeping the children in the house.'
But Brockenshire said Curtis still makes it around Stanley, going unhampered to the telephone office to make his call.
'Yesterday he said that after talking with us he would go help a friend with some chores.'
