Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colonists organized by Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who wrote mournfully of the "vast silence broken only by the occasional cry of a sea monster." The French were building a tiny fort in Port Louis on East Falkland in 1764; the British reappeared the next year and began creating a settlement in West Falkland called Port Egmont...
Johnson's sneers proved prophetic. Although British diplomats won Spain's permission to maintain a settlement in the Falklands, London was preoccupied with the rebellion in its North American colonies and abandoned Port Egmont in 1774 as "uneconomical." In departing, though, the British commander nailed up a lead plaque that said: "Be it known to all nations that Falkland's Islands. . . are the sole property of His Most Sacred Majesty, George the Third, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland...
...last week on a foreign adventure that has brought them to the brink of war with Britain. The invasion of the Falkland Islands was clearly a ploy to distract Argentine citizens from their domestic grievances. We can only hope that the current crisis is resolved peacefully--and that whatever settlement is reached does not reward Argentina for its flagrant violation of international...
...less sanguine about the future, some critics of the Administration's policy continued to press for a negotiated peace settlement with the guerrillas. "Now is the time to negotiate," insisted Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas. "When the center-right elements are the strongest they will strength." ever But be, the they success can of the negotiate from elections has likely dampened whatever interest the Administration might have had in promoting such talks. The big voter turn out may have bought the U.S. time by eas ing domestic and foreign pressure for immediate negotiations. Most important, the showing undermined the leftists...
...British political aides in London were calling a "little local difficulty." But suddenly the fight became all too real. Some 2,500 Argentine troops, backed by an aircraft carrier, three missile destroyers and other warships, swooped down on a scattering of chilly South Atlantic islands. Waiting helplessly near the settlement of Port Stanley was a defense force consisting of a mere 40 British Royal Marines. After three hours of sporadic gunfire, in which one invader was killed and two others were wounded, the battle was over. Argentine forces also invaded the island of South Georgia. The British announced that...