Word: falkland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fire his machine-cannon for one second; 100 20-mm rounds would have streaked toward the enemy jet. However, many of the downed MiGs were apparently hit by the latest model of the Sidewinder missile, which is being used effectively by British Sea Harriers in the Falkland Islands. The weapon adjusts its aim in flight with an extremely sensitive infrared homing system that guides the warhead toward the enemy jet at 1,650 m.p.h., faster than 95% of the planes in the Syrian air force. The new Sidewinders are so sensitive that they can lock in on the heat created...
Instead of U.N. troops, an independent, multinational force, including U.S. soldiers, was created to patrol the Sinai desert along the Egyptian-Israeli boundary. Similarly, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wants the U.S. to be included in any future peace-keeping force that might protect the Falkland Islands. The danger of offending a superpower may be a greater deterrent than the fear of upsetting...
Though both the President's delivery and the responses were restrained, in keeping with British tradition, Reagan drew rumbles of "hear, hear" and a burst of applause by asserting that in the Falkland Islands British soldiers are fighting not "for lumps of rock and earth" but for the principle that armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed...
...John ("Sandy") Woodward and Major General John Jeremy Moore, the two commanders to whom Prime Minister Thatcher had entrusted the final decision on how to take Port Stanley, were apparently also eager to avoid a military bloodbath. They were especially worried about the safety of the 250 to 400 Falkland Islanders still believed to be living in the capital. (Of the original population of 1,050, the remainder had taken refuge elsewhere...
Clearly alluding to the old-style battle that was moving toward a final denouement on the Falkland Islands, he said, "Today the scale and horror of modern warfare, whether nuclear or not, makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history...