Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasize that point, Britain late last week declared that any Argentine ship or aircraft found more than twelve miles from Argentina's mainland would be considered hostile and dealt with "accordingly." Buenos Aires' Ambassador to the U.N. Eduardo Roca immediately denounced the move as "illegal." There was speculation that the 66-ship British armada, its deadliest elements standing at battle stations off the Falklands, might send troops ashore early this week. Weighing against that possibility was the fact that much of the equipment necessary for the invasion of the islands was aboard ships sailing from Ascension Island...
...Brooklyn-class cruiser had a distinguished history. As the U.S.S. Phoenix, she survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequently carried then Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the 1943 Casablanca conference. She was sold to Argentina in 1951 for $7.8 million...
...initial strikes had a limited, surgical purpose, in keeping with the declared British strategy of using minimum force and maximum diplomatic and economic pressure to make Argentina relinquish the Falklands. But this principle of military restraint became one of the first casualties of the South Atlantic war. As the British fleet went to work in the Falklands, elements of the Argentine navy were also preparing for action. Some 36 miles outside the British total-exclusion zone, the 13,645-ton Argentine cruiser General Belgrano and two escorts had suddenly turned, according to the British, toward their task force...
...Argentine reaction to the Belgrano's sinking was heated. At first, Buenos Aires said that Britain's announcement was "a lie" and part of a campaign of "psychological warfare." The next day, however, Argentina conceded the ship's loss and denounced the attack as a "treacherous act of armed aggression...
...House of Commons, the opposition Labor Party, which after some fretting had taken a posture of bipartisan support for the government's combination of military and diplomatic pressure on Argentina, became restive again. Labor Leader Michael Foot refused a Thatcher offer of briefings on the military progress in the Falklands, and renewed demands that Britain try U.N. mediation of the dispute. Labor's foreign policy spokesman, Denis Healey, warned that "if this military escalation continues, more lives, both Argentine and British, could be lost than there are on the Falkland Islands." Outside the Commons the Archbishop of Canterbury...