Word: armada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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, 3,800 miles away...
...began. Soviet spy ships had dogged the British armada as it made its slow way down the South Atlantic to the Falklands. In private conversations with Secretary of State Haig, Argentina's Costa Méndez had warned that his country might turn to the Soviet Union for military assistance in the event of a British attack. Haig was unfazed by the threat, but the very mention of possible Soviet involvement added yet another level of possible trouble that might arise from the situation...
Falklands, the remote British colony that Argentina had invaded a fortnight earlier. Steaming at an estimated 18 knots, the armada was expected to be on station by midweek. Meanwhile, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had already stationed four submarines, three of them nuclear powered, inside a 200-mile "maritime exclusion zone" around the Falklands, and threatened to fire on any Argentine ship that challenged the blockade. Argentina must unconditionally withdraw from the Falklands, Thatcher insisted to the approval of 80% of her countrymen, or Britain would fight...
...Tung, 71, owner of one of the world's largest independent fleets of ships; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. Born in mainland China, he helped Nationalist China to rehabilitate its state-run shipping industry after World War II and then built his own 11 million-ton armada that totals 149 ships and tankers...
...Armada described these stories as fabri cations. Appearing be fore cadets at the Zaragoza Military Academy last week, Juan Carlos rejected the charge that he was involved. Said he: "We were not wrong to choose liber ty and justice to build a pluralistic society in a united Spain...