Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will lose much by not backing Argentina [May 17]. Our decision was based on remembrances of yesterday. By supporting Britain the U.S. will force Argentina to seek aid from the Communist bloc...
...summits, Reagan will hold bilateral discussions with the leaders of his host countries. His reception in all four capitals should be cordial. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will surely express her gratitude that Washington has come down firmly on Britain's side in the war with Argentina. Mitterrand will restate his support for NATO's plan to modernize its nuclear forces. His enthusiasm has pleased the Reagan Administration, which initially had been wary of the Socialist President. West German Chancellor Schmidt finds himself more sympathetic to the Reagan Administration now that it has suspended its efforts to block...
...battle did not seem to be going well for Argentina, and at the very least a ferocious war had entered yet another stage?the British were poised for a major assault, and perhaps a bloody one, on Port Stanley...
...Conveyor, disabled and abandoned. The Conveyor was hit by the same type of Exocet missile that sank the British destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield four weeks ago. Including another frigate, H.M.S. Ardent, sunk on May 22, Britain said it had lost five ships in the struggle to regain the islands, but Argentina claimed Royal Navy losses were higher than that...
Reports of general losses were even more conflicting. The British claimed to have shot down a total of 69 Argentine aircraft, about one-third of Argentina's air force, since the Falklands fighting began. The Argentine government said those figures were much too high, and the truth was probably somewhere in between...