Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beatriz Borrero Fleet Zion...
...action, broadcast a demand for surrender to the troops occupying Port Stanley. "No way-we're winning," replied the local Argentine commander. He added: "Bring on the little prince," a reference to Britain's Prince Andrew, 22, a helicopter pilot with the fleet...
...Argentines sent six Israeli-built Dagger jets against the British fleet in retaliation, and claimed to have badly damaged at least one British vessel. The British admitted that a frigate had suffered minor damage and one sailor had been wounded, but said that they had downed at least two Argentine planes...
...before the British total blockade of the disputed islands went into effect, the Argentines had announced a reciprocal blockade. Any airplane or ship from either country caught within 200 miles of the Falklands was liable to be attacked. Argentina's intention to carry the fight to the British fleet meant that a major air or sea battle might start at any moment...
...shrouded in secrecy, but TIME has learned that the British inner circle has set a strict deadline of mid-June, the onset of winter, for resolution of the Falklands crisis, whether by diplomatic or by military means. Explains a Thatcher aide: "We just can't keep our fleet bobbing around in such harsh weather conditions forever...