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...west of the Falklands. Fighting 40-to-50-m.p.h. winds that whipped the frigid seas into 40-ft. waves-momentarily leaving the propellers of the lighter frigates spinning in mid-air-the British task force had begun an effort to choke off supplies to the occupiers, while Royal Marine commandos prepared for hit-and-run raids to demoralize the Argentine troops. There were unconfirmed reports that British commando units were already ashore in the archipelago, gathering intelligence and possibly preparing for a full-scale British invasion. The Argentine occupying force on the islands, according to Argentina's military governor...
...there was any doubt that the British were prepared to use force decisively to retake the Falklands, it was dispelled on April 25. At dawn's first light, more than 100 members of M Company, 42nd Commando, of the Royal Marines were landed on remote and mountainous South Georgia Island, a British dependency some 800 miles east of the Falklands. By 6 that evening, Prime Minister Thatcher was able to enjoin Britons to "rejoice, rejoice," as she and Defense Secretary John Nott announced the recapture of their first objective in the South Atlantic without a single British casualty. Fighting...
...fight its difficult war in the Falklands. Even as Foreign Secretary Pym conferred in Washington with Secretary of State Haig on April 22 about a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis, as many as a dozen members of Britain's elite Special Boat Squadron, an ultra-secret frogman-commando unit, had slipped quietly ashore on the island. Their mission was to scout Argentine troop emplacements and estimate the size of the opposing force. The scouts reported that the Argentine troops at the South Georgia harbor of Grytviken, the site of an abandoned whaling station, numbered no more than...
Along with the briskly enforced blockade, the British are considering such actions as sabotage and the blowing up of Argentine supply dumps in the Falklands by special commando units infiltrated onto the islands, as they were onto South Georgia. Last week, the government first issued a rare denial, then a more routine "no comment," at reports that small groups of British troops are already on the Falklands...
...campaign, to say the least, had its problems. In fact, the inability of the Administration to line up convincing witnesses would have seemed farcical were the matter not so serious. First there was the so-called "smoking Sandinista," grandly touted as a captured Nicaraguan commando who had helped lead the insurrection in El Salvador. But when police let him loose to show the way to one of his purported contacts, he disappeared into San Salvador's Mexican embassy, which said he was only a student and granted him asylum. Then there were two Nicaraguan air force defectors who were...