Word: nott
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Defense Secretary John Nott also came under renewed fire last week, as he presented the government's annual White Paper on defense. The document reaffirmed that Britain's major military priority was to protect the country from the Soviet Union within the NATO alliance. It underlined the Thatcher government's intention to go ahead with the controversial $13.5 billion purchase of Trident submarine-launched nuclear missiles at the expense of surface ships of the kind that proved valuable but also vulnerable in the South Atlantic. Nott's critics argued that the country needed stronger conventional naval...
...what British Defense Minister John Nott described as a "brilliant surprise attack," Royal Marine commandos and paratroopers overran Argentine positions just before daybreak, coming to within five miles of Port Stanley. Many of the young Argentine defenders were asleep in their foxholes as the British struck. The first things they saw, said Nott, "were the blackened faces of the British troops in the trenches with them...
...Tristram, carrying members of the Fifth Infantry Brigade who were establishing a second British beachhead only 17 miles from Port Stanley. That brought to seven the total of major British ships lost since a Royal Navy task force reached the wintry South Atlantic archipelago on April 29. Defense Secretary Nott somberly refused to disclose to the House of Commons the number of casualties on the ground that the information "could be of assistance to the enemy." Finally, British officials privately disclosed that 60 men had died and 120 were wounded, which would bring the war's toll to some...
...bitter war seemed to be nearing its climax, both sides had gained grudging respect for their adversary's fighting powers. Said British Defense Secretary John Nott: "I think the Argentine pilots have shown great bravery." Still, Prime Minister Thatcher declared: "We in Britain know the reality of war. We know its hazards and its dangers. Despite these grievous losses, neither our resolve nor our confidence is weakened...
...loss of the two ships marked Britain's bleakest day in .the war. In the House of Commons, Defense Secretary Nott announced that recent additions to the British task force (an additional three destroyers, four frigates, two submarines and a large minesweeper joined the fleet last week) more than balanced its losses in the past few weeks. Said Nott: "The task force has more escort vessels today than a week...