Word: fortress
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...scattered along the expected path of the British attack. Large numbers of the mines will never be found, remaining as silent and deadly reminders of the irrevocable change that the war has brought to the islands. There are 4300 soldiers garrisoned on what has come to be known as "Fortress Falklands," and the troops, the Harrier jets, and Rapier anti-aircraft missiles are eloquent witness to the British determination to hold on to what they won at such terrible cost...
...prevent another invasion, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has pledged to defend what has become known as Fortress Falklands at an estimated cost of $2.79 billion over the next three years, or more than $1.5 million per kelper. Despite a Gallup poll indicating that 53% of the British felt the islands were not worth keeping at such high expense, Thatcher resolutely refuses to retrench or to negotiate the future sovereignty of the islands with Argentina...
Conducted in a fortress-like Rome gymnasium guarded by several hundred police and carabinieri, the trial lasted nearly nine months and involved testimony from 298 witnesses. Throughout the proceedings, the defendants, 18 of whom were women, were penned in six steel cages, while those who had become informants were protected by bulletproof glass. As one of the cooperative terrorists walked to his seat last week, a defendant yelled, "You would sell your own mother...
...fault successive Cabinets, British intelligence and Thatcher. In a brief preview of this week's full debate on the report, cries of "Whitewash!" were heard when Prime Minister Thatcher read the Franks report's exculpation of her government. Said she: "We now have no option but Fortress Falklands." Former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan charged that Thatcher had bought "a short-term military victory and a long-term political retreat and dead end." The report, he later insisted, let the Prime Minister off "too lightly...
...something," says one U.S. intelligence official. "It may just be to keep the British on edge, to make them spend a lot of money on defense. But if you are British, you have to assume they'll try something." Which may explain Thatcher's commitment to Fortress Falklands. -By Jay D. Palmer. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London