Word: belgrano
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...last Wednesday, a bomb exploded in the posh Belgrano district of Buenos Aires, shattering the windows of an apartment building. Less than 19 hours later, President Raul Alfonsin gazed somberly into a television camera and addressed the people of Argentina. "Professionals of violence," he claimed, were attempting to undermine his government by "creating insecurity, the sensation of impunity, generating the idea that democracy is incapable of defending its citizens." Over the previous six weeks, he charged, these "demented phantoms" had been responsible for 1,806 bomb warnings and 42 explosions. But, he warned, they would not prevail...
...Ministry of Defense, was acquitted of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury that had been virtually instructed by the trial judge to deliver a guilty verdict. Ponting was charged with giving a Labor Party Member of Parliament classified documents about the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano by a Royal Navy submarine during the 1982 Falklands war. More than 360 Argentine sailors perished in the attack. The documents contradicted the account of the Belgrano episode given at the time to Parliament by members of the Thatcher government. The material indicated, among other things, that the Belgrano...
Although her government recaptured the offensive last week in a nasty parliamentary squabble over the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands war, questions linger about the timing and motives behind the attack. The latest survey by Britain's respected MORI poll puts the Labor Party even with the Conservatives at 37%, the Tories' lowest ebb in three years...
...issue was the government's decision last August to prosecute Clive Ponting, a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defense, for violating Britain's Official Secrets Act. Ponting had leaked to a Labor M.P. documents that detailed the government's decision to attack the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands war in 1982. Although Ponting's lawyer subsequently put the odds against acquittal at 300 to 1, the jury found the defendant not guilty...
...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 missiles to the South Atlantic and might have used...