Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's photojournalists frustrating in the extreme. One of the few who have succeeded at all is Sygma Agency Photographer J.C. Criton. On assignment for TIME, Criton was able to get on and off the Falklands two weeks ago and send his pictures out of Argentina. His vivid photographs of Argentine troops and weapons on the Falklands were a highlight of last week's TIME. They were the only recent color pictures from the occupied islands to reach...
...might conceivably develop. In England, Picture Researcher Brenda Draper posted photographers to the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street, the Ministry of Defense, and places like the naval shipyards in Portsmouth and Plymouth. From Buenos Aires, Picture Researcher Nina Lindley positioned photographers in key locations throughout Argentina...
Having spent several months in Argentina and the Falkland Islands, I have had the opportunity to listen to the views of ordinary Argentines and Falkland Islanders. While the Argentines care passionately about the sovereignty of the Falklands, they don't want to live there. The Kelpers, on the other hand, have been on the islands for more than a century and care passionately about remaining under British rule. Recent British governments have been caught between the two sides. On the one hand they have respected the wishes of the islanders and, at the same time, have valued their traditional...
...missiles streaked across the waves, while less visible but no less deadly computer-assisted torpedoes coursed through the icy waters. Before the week was over, each side had lost a proud warship to these lethal new engines of destruction. For the first time, the military forces of Britain and Argentina had mauled each other on the high seas in the bizarre battle for possession of the remote, inhospitable Falkland Islands. Then, as if stunned by the enormity of their actions, the adversaries momentarily drew apart, offering yet another opportunity for diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the crisis, which...
...sides by noon E.D.T. on Friday. But the effort failed, and at week's end the best hope for peace seemed to rest with the United Nations and a vague proposal sponsored by its Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Both Britain and Argentina maintained that they were pursuing the peace plan "urgently and constructively," but the language was contradicted by the mood: pessimism...