The bodies and plane wreckage will be transported tomorrow to Fernando DE Noronha, where the military has set up a staging post for the search operation.
San Pedro was once a major staging post for the great cattle drives of yore, but is now a staging post on the great gringo trail.
As the rebel insurgency flowed and ebbed across Libya this year, it passed through most of the staging posts in Muammar Qaddafi's life.
Even so, the proximity talks seem likely, at best, to be a staging post on the way to an American plan to tackle the real issues.
In 2012 a second bridge will link Chongming to the Yangzi's other bank, making it a staging post on a major route between Shanghai's main international airport and the cities of Jiangsu province.
