European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes june interviewer clash Over details of sinking of ship during falklands War world today London a prime minister Margaret Thatcher and interviewer David Frost had heated exchanges in a broadcast aired sunday when they discussed the sinking of the Argentine Cruiser general Belgrano during the 1982 falklands asked by Frost Why her government had engaged in a coverup and tried to Stonewall Over the May Thatcher replied he must be bonkers if he thought she spent All her time poring Over charts of ship movements from a War three years Thatcher added 1 am absolutely astounded that in one of the most Brilliant Battles Ever Miles away from the Only Point that you or others can take is that you have discovered the Belgrano was seen one Day before we and that the ship changed after Argentina invaded the Falkland islands in april Britain recaptured its 150yearold South Atlantic Colony in a 10week War during which 712 Argentine and 255 British lives were the Belgrano was sunk with the loss of 368 lives on May a Day after the first air raids on British naval forces approaching the it was the first Large scale loss of life in the and critics contend fallout War might have been avoided had the sinking not critics also noted that it want until Long after the event that thatchers government acknowledged the ship was outside the total exclusion zone Britain had declared around the islands and was sailing away from the Falk a photo of Baltimore sailing under the Tower Bridge in the Pride of Baltimore is the first Baltimore Clipper Schooner to sail in More than 100 the ship travels the world As a Goodwill telling the Story of its Home ports revitalization and Good lands when it was hit by two torpedoes from the submarine has the vessel also was sighted a Day earlier than the defense minister John Nott first told the House of but in the recorded interview broadcast sunday on in dependent televisions Good Britain Thatcher reiterated her View that these matters were in the she told was a danger to our if i were in charge of the War i would take the same decision who also had the first i depth interview with former president Nixon after he resigned Over the water Gate asked Thatcher Why the government had Given incorrect information on the time of the Belgrano sight ing and its heading when and Why she repeated inac curate information As late As a 1983 interview shortly before she won a second term As prime do you that i spend my Days prowl ing around the Pigeon holes of the ministry of defense to look at the Chart of each and every ship Thatcher said if you you must be i know it was right to sink and i would do the same so would you had you not been a to commentator but had been in a position of responsibility for the Hermes the British Carrie flagship in the the invincible another Carrier and the task Spanish distrust of French High Spain a the results of a Survey published simultaneously in Madrid and Paris confirm what Many French people living South of the pyrenees have known for some time that most spaniards consider France a hostile the conducted in Spain and France in Early revealed that percent of spaniards questioned consider France a hostile country and 70 percent believe France had posed serious obstacles to Spain entry into the european economic of those surveyed in 73 percent said they considered Spain a Friendly Only 13 percent said they thought Spain was a hostile the Survey was conducted by Sofe Masa in Spain and sores in both Well known Market research at the request of an organization established in Madrid in 1983 to improve franc Spanish on the Day the Survey results were Spanish newspapers carried front Page photos of boxes of Spanish fruit thrown from trucks by angry French Farmers on a Highway near the papers also carried Brussels dateline stories on Las minute attempts by France to impose further limitations on the Sale of Spanish wine once Spain enters the common Market in tourists travelling in the troubled Northern Spanish Bas que country have had their tires slashed and cars burned in retaliation for the extradition to Spain by France of three alleged Basque separatist two of the three were later acquitted in Spanish on May Frances ambassador to Pierre Gui and the mayor of the town of outside signed a symbolic peace 177 years after the towns mayor declared War on France and the occupy ing army of Napoleon when the French Navy last summer fired on Basque fishing boats it said were illegally fishing in French territorial the state run Spanish television and most of the country press expressed outrage at what they called French of spaniards questioned in the percent said they resented the attitude of superiority displayed by the French toward the major reason cited by the French for their liking of Spain was its Good tourist France is Spain most important single source of tour and tourism is Spain primary source of foreign in French test fire sub version of exocet anti ship missile Paris a the French Navy has successfully test fired a submarine version of the exocet anti ship missile from a nuclear attack the missiles has the sm39 exocet already is in service in Frances nuclear deterrent submarines and Agost class conventional diesel powered Aero spatial the tests on May 2223 were made from the nuclear attack submarine the first firing was at Periscope depth and Long the second in deep water and Short in both the formerly the fast escort ship received a direct Aero spatial the company said the submarine system comprised an exocet very similar to that used by Argentine aircraft against British ships in the falklands in a propelled and guided submarine cleaning fluid put by Accident into politicians water Supply London up More than 50 politicians were at risk from poisoning in a building adjoining the houses of parliament when workmen accidentally poured cleaning fluid into the main water Supply instead of the Central heating the government the mistake was discovered when a Jacque line became violently ill after drinking water in a washroom in the Norman Shaw an Annex to the House of she was recovering in the building houses 58 members of parliament and More than 100 secretaries and researchers but no one else was taken tests showed workmen had poured about 22 Gallons of anti corrosive fluid into the water Supply tank instead of into the Central heating British Auto registrations running ahead of record year London up a total of new cars were registered in Britain in a percent Rise Over the previous Mays figure of the society of motor manufacturers and traders at registrations in the first five months of this year were percent ahead of last years which was ahead of 1983s record year at that importers share in May reached percent compared with percent a year for the first five importers have taken percent of the Market compared with 56 percent last Mays top 10 Sellers were Ford Vaux Hall Ford Ford Austin Vauxhall Austin Austin Ford and Rover strike forces British newspaper to publish without photographs London a Britain guardian newspaper appeared carrying Blank spaces instead of pictures because of a strike by photograph production the Liberal National newspaper published an apology displayed in the Middle of an double column Blank space on its front the space had been set aside for a picture of Tammy named As americas youngest but Only the caption the guardian apology said the absence of pictures was due to a dispute with process engraving workers belonging to the National graphical one of Britain two major print Japan donated billion to developing nations in 1984 Tokyo up Japan gave More than billion record percentage of its Gross National product to devel Oping countries in a level of Aid second Only to the United states among no communist the govern ment a report shows the country official development Aid totalled billion in up percent Over 1983 the United states was the top donor among noncom Monist with Aid amounting to about Japan passed the second highest donor in which gave about billion to developing nations in the government report
