Word: archipelagos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government of a free people-one which is not prepared to compromise that democracy and that liberty which the British Falkland Islanders regard as their birthright." The British government would continue to listen to plans that might break the deadlock, but it would enforce its blockade of the disputed archipelago. "If the [war] zone is challenged," she declared, "we shall take that as the clearest evidence that the search for a peaceful solution has been abandoned. We shall then take the necessary action. Let no one doubt that...
...every assumption adopted, every premise clung to by people eager to rationalize a policy of accommodation toward the Soviet Union has been shredded by events." Searching, as he does with all subjects, for the historical coincidence to add meaning, he notes wryly that "Solzhenitsyn finished writing The Gulag Archipelago in 1967, the fiftieth anniversary of the Communist Revolution and the one hundredth anniversary of the invention of barbed wire...
Such are the Falkland Islands, the rainswept archipelago about 300 miles east of the Strait of Magellan, which is perhaps the most bizarre scene for an armed conflict since the Orcs attacked J.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The two main islands, East Falkland (2,550 sq. mi.) and West Falkland (1,750 sq. mi.), surrounded by a shoal of 200 islets, cover an area about the size of Connecticut.* The prevailing west winds are so fierce that the Falklands have no trees, and, rumors of offshore oil notwithstanding, there are virtually no natural resources except grass. There are also...
Britain said Wednesday it will begin a blockade of the Falklands next week. Britain's Secretary John Nott declared English ships will sink any Argentine vessels within 200 miles of the archipelago. And Secretary of State Alexander Haig flew to London yesterday to confer with the British government and will go to Argentina this weekend...
...presence fueled speculation that the submarine might have been eavesdropping on communications traffic at Karlskrona, or laying underwater navigational beacons in the tricky waters around the Blekinge archipelago, or updating Soviet knowledge of the area (especially since the Swedes habitually misdraw public charts of the sensitive waters, precisely to confuse the Soviets...