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Aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible sail from Portsmouth with other ships
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26728 |
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Carrington resigns and is replaced as Foreign Secretary by Francis Pym
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26729 |
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Junior Foreign Office Ministers Richard Luce and Humphrey Atkins resign
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26730 |
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Reagan approves Haig peace mission
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26731 |
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British Government announces it will impose a 200-mile exclusion zone around the Islands on 26 April
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26732 |
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Liner Canberra is requisitioned at Southampton upon her return from a world cruise
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26733 |
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Britain freezes $1.4 billion in Argentine assets held in British banks
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26734 |
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Haig and his team arrive in London
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26735 |
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3 Commando Brigade sail from Southampton aboard Canberra
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26736 |
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European Economic Community approve economic sanctions against Argentina (Ireland and Italy veto)
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26737 |