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Argentine foreign minister rejects the communique and says that Argentina reserves the right to 'employ other means' if Britain keeps refusing to cede sovereignty
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26660 |
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MP Julian Amery asks if 'all necessary steps are in hand to ensure the protection of the Islands against unexpected attack' but receives an evasive reply
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26661 |
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Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington refuses to send a submarine to patrol off the Islands and South Georgia
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26662 |
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Hercules aircraft operated by Argentine military airline LADE, supposedly on a mail run to an Antarctic base, lands at Stanley Airport, falsely claiming a fuel leak, and carrying several senior Argentine officers whom the local LADE commandant takes on a
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26663 |
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Thatcher asks the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence for contingency plans in case of an Argentine blockade or invasion of the Islands
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26664 |
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Davidoff sends 40 workmen on naval vessel Bahia Buen Suceso to dismantle Leith whaling station on South Georgia - the workmen fail to ask permission to land from the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken and upon arrival hoist the Argentine flag - Br
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26665 |
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Thatcher sends Endurance and 24 Royal Marines from Stanley to South Georgia
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26666 |
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Bahia Buen Suceso and 30 workmen sail from Leith
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26667 |
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Endurance arrives at Grytviken but earlier instructions to remove Argentine workmen are rescinded
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26668 |
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Argentine naval vessel Bahia Paraiso puts a large quantity of stores ashore at Leith together with a marine detachment under the command of Captain Alfredo Astiz
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26669 |