Thatcher in Falklands, Recalls War
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STANLEY, Falkland Islands — Margaret Thatcher arrived in the Falkland Islands on Saturday for a four-day visit marking the 10th anniversary of Britain’s war with Argentina over the colony.
Hundreds of islanders greeted the former prime minister as she drove into Stanley, the capital. Cheering children waved British flags.
“I’d do it again. Look at these children--of course I’d do it again,” she told reporters, who asked if she had any regrets about sending Britons to war in 1982 to recapture the British colony in the South Atlantic from invading Argentine troops.
The war cost the lives of 712 Argentines and 255 British soldiers.
Today, Thatcher is to attend a church service to which all the islands’ 2,200 inhabitants have been invited.
Argentina, which lays claim to the islands, invaded on April 2, 1982. Three days later Britain sent a task force from Plymouth, in southern England. By June 14 it had recaptured the islands.
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