Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should not forget that in an East-West conflict, its important allies will be the South Americans. The Europeans, with or without missiles, will probably last a few days, while North and South America will be the real fortress for the Western world...
...official about Thatcher's determination to pursue the military offensive in the South Atlantic. At last week's NATO summit in Bonn, the alliance's newest member, Spain, opposed a joint declaration of support for Britain. Spanish Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo declared that "a military conflict is tearing the Western world apart and threatening to open up a profound rift of extremely serious political and historic consequences...
...British losses at Fitzroy once again highlighted the major weakness of their task force: the lack of an effective airborne early warning system similar to the AW ACS used by the U.S. The Falklands conflict erupted only a few months before the British were scheduled to install a comparable radar system in their Nimrod Mark 3 reconnaissance aircraft. About six weeks ago, London asked Washington for the loan of an AW ACS to repair that important deficiency, but the Reagan Administration refused. The reason: Washington's insistence that American servicemen, who would be necessary to operate the system...
...British have also been hampered by the poor performance of the Sea Dart and Seaslug antiaircraft missiles aboard task-force ships. The guidance radar of those weapons has failed to respond properly in the harsh realities of combat. For the first time since the Falklands conflict began, some experts in London have begun to murmur that Task Force Commander Woodward may have taken too many chances in committing his warships to support of the British invasion forces...
...Malvinas." The feeling was mirrored in less religious reactions: crowds that gathered outside the offices of the daily La Nación to read the latest war news did not greet last week's announcements of British losses with the jubilation of the early weeks of the conflict...