Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentines claimed that the Plymouth exploded, but the British Defense Ministry insisted that while the ship had been damaged, it was still in service. According to the British, five men were wounded. The British said they shot down seven Argentine aircraft in the various attacks and damaged four others. Argentina admitted losing two planes...
...casualties, but a mystery. Some 500 miles northeast of the Falklands, the 220,117-ton U.S.-owned but Liberian-registered supertanker Hercules was steaming south with her oil tanks empty. Her eventual destination: Alaska. The ship was far from the 200-mile blockade limit, which both Britain and Argentina have declared around the Falklands, when it was attacked by a four-engine aircraft, probably a C130. Bombs were pushed out of the aircraft cargo door; one hit the Hercules but failed to explode on board. None of the 29 crewmen was injured. According to the British Defense Ministry, the ship...
...News of Argentina's aerial successes lifted the gray mood that had enveloped Buenos Aires when a humiliating defeat at Port Stanley had seemed inevitable. Blared a headline in the daily newspaper Convictión: LONDON ADMITS GETTING A BEATING. Under the eyes of a beaming President Galtieri, thousands of chanting, banner-waving Argentines gathered in the central Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to celebrate Malvinas Day, the anniversary of the appointment of the first Argentine governor of the contested islands known in Spanish as Las Malvinas. As Galtieri waved his hat in salute, the crowd chanted...
...Buenos Aires rally was yet another sign of how the Falklands struggle has brought a degree of unity to Argentina, a country of 28 million, traditionally riven by factionalism. Says Francisco Manrique, 63, president of the country's suspended Federal Party: "Whatever happens in the Falklands and whatever mistakes the government made are secondary. The fact is that Argentines now have a sense of pride and nationhood as never before." The war was also bringing about a realignment of Argentine foreign policy. Staunchly Roman Catholic, anti-Communist and pro-Western, Argentina has responded to U.S. and Western European support...
...continue for the time being, but with London considering at least a partial transfer of authority in the not too distant future; 3) a pullback of Argentine forces to be immediately matched or followed by a withdrawal by Britain of its task force; and 4) ultimately, direct negotiations between Argentina and Britain on the islands' long-term future...