The ongoing crisis over The Falkland Islands ratcheted up a few more notches, this May 21st in 1982. With British Special Forces landing, and more expected before nightfall, Argentina admitted troops had landed and that Argentine forces were fighting back. Aside from acknowledgements of fighting taking place, not much in the way of details was being given.
The British task force was given the go-ahead Thursday to recapture the Falkland Islands through a series of landings and run raids as Britain signaled that current peace hit negotiations with Argentina had ended. Government sources said there would be no “D- Day type invasion” but rather a war of attrition, designed to win back the islands by picking off isolated and demoralized Argentine garrisons until the rest surrendered.
In other news – word from the Labor Department was upbeat, with reports that there was a “marked improvement” over the country’s inflation problem, citing a report that consumer prices rose slowly in April at an annual rate of 3%, with higher prices for food and housing accounting for much of that increase which offset lower gasoline prices.
Both the House and Senate were in the midst of debating 1983 Budget plans with the House optimistic a proposal would arrive shortly. The Senate was a different story.
And along with The Falklands crisis, that’s much of what went on this particular May 21st in 1982 via CBS Radio News with Richard C. Hottelet.
