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...waters of the area, the number of known survivors rose to about 800. But the strike against the cruiser was as much a psychological shock as a military one. The Belgrano was the second largest ship in the Argentine navy, behind the 39-year-old aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo. Loss of the vessel was a substantive blow to Argentine prestige. Moreover, the decision to sink the Belgrano outside the 200-mile blockade constituted a sharp escalation of the fighting and an abrupt change from the "minimal use of force" concept...
...Mayo Mohs. Reported by Jordan Bonfante and Sandra Burton/Paris
From Britain. The flagship of the navy is the 1945 aircraft carrier, the Veinticinco de Mayo, sold first to the Dutch, who later resold it to the Argentines. The navy also includes two guided missile destroyers (one built in Argentina under British supervision) and six coastal minesweepers. The army is equipped with Tigercat surface-to-air missiles; the air force flies nine Canberra medium bombers...
...sale of four frigates, six corvettes and six submarines, and France has halted shipment of Crotale surface-to-air and Exocet surface-to-surface missiles. Britain itself has withheld sale of Sea Dart missiles, the same kind that were on the fleet last week heading to-Carrier Veinticinco de Mayo ward the Falkland Islands...
...Mayo Mohs. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/Glasgow