Word: veinticinco
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...days after Dalyell's disclosures, the weekly New Statesman, citing unidentified British sources, reported that Thatcher disregarded a U.S. peace initiative and decided to sink a major Argentine vessel. She first ordered the sinking of the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo, but the nuclear submarine assigned to the task lost track of the carrier. Another sub later hit the Belgrano instead. The magazine reported that some of Thatcher's advisers objected that it was against international law to attack a ship without warning. The New Statesman also said that the British sent a Polaris submarine armed with nuclear...
...combed the 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...
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...
During the week Madrid denials made no impression on Argentine authorities who affirmed at Buenos Aires that the President of Spain, corpulent regular Republican Manuel Azaña was about to seek refuge in the Argentine Embassy. They said he had appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually...
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