Word: argentinas
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...attack, if it did in fact make the Port Stanley strip unusable, meant that the British had virtually destroyed Argentina's ability to resupply its roughly 10,000 troops in the Falklands. The air assault had also considerably eased the task of protecting the British task force of 60-odd ships, some of which were now on battle stations within a few miles of the Falklands. In addition, the attack prepared the way for a possible full-scale invasion of the islands. According to the Argentines, the British task force commander, Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward, who celebrated...
...veering between authoritarianism and anarchy have produced a political culture of cynicism in Argentina. What is right is all too often what can be got away with. In that context, many if not most Argentines regard fulfillment of their historical claim to the Falklands as more important than the means used to attain it. Even though the population has become increasingly restive after six years of military rule, the junta enjoys solid public support for its stand on the Falklands...
That attitude is shared even by members of the country's community of more than 100,000 Argentine citizens of British extraction, descendants of the generations of British traders and technicians who helped build modern Argentina. Those Anglo-Argentines have long formed a special, privileged class in the country, with their own schools, hospitals, charities, churches and genteelly British ways of life. They congregate at institutions like the Hurlingham Club, a vast social and recreational complex in the heavily British Buenos Aires suburb of Hurlingham. The club has five polo fields, two swimming pools, a golf course, cricket pitch...
...same uneasy stirrings, reports TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, are beginning to affect the faraway town of Ushuaia (pop. 10,000), located 1,450 miles from Buenos Aires at Argentina's extreme southern tip. The bucolic community, which is the site of a major naval base and is now considered to be part of a national security zone, is normally a haven of tolerance where the police chief speaks English and local duty-free stores are filled with Burberry raincoats, Dunhill men's accessories, Mary Quant cosmetics, Pringle woolens, Johnnie Walker Scotch and other British goods. Writes McWhirter...
...niceties of conduct in Ushuaia and elsewhere in Argentina may dwindle further when, and if, British and Argentines square off ashore...