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agog The Miami Tuesday, June 1, 1982 tot War in the Falklands At Goose Green: 'We fought soldiers, GOOSE GREEN, Falkland Islands I crossed the Argentinian lines on Saturday to help a paratroop officer negotiate the surrender of Goose Green. Maj. Chris Keeble, acting commanding officer of the Second Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, asked me and another reporter, Robert Fox of British Broadcasting to act as civilian witnesses at the talks, conducted under a white flag truce. The day before I had watched from a heavily shelled and strafed position, as the paratroopers, outnumbered two to one, fought it out in the desperate battle Goose Green and Port Darwin the Argentinians' second biggest Falklands stronghold. It was a day of triumph and of sadness.

"Red Devils" died on the battlefield. They included the battalion's old Etonian commanding officer, Col. Herbert Jones. known affectionately to his men The colonel and his troops were killed while assaulting enemy positions on the smoking, burning hillsides that formed the Argentinians' line of defense. began in the chilling darkness of Friday morning when we marched in silence the five miles from Camilla Creek our staging post between the San Carlos beachhead and Goose Green to meet the enemy in all-out battle.

British shells, aimed at enemy positions in and around the twin communities of Goose Green and Port Darwin, whined overhead as we tramped along the muddy peat toward our goal. The flashes of our shells and mortars were interspersed with red tracers criss-crossing the starless sky as the enemy fired back. Past blazing wooden buildings we followed the spearhead companies into the battle zone, diving for cover as shells from an enemy gun exploded around us in gold and silver cascades of light. Wet, muddy and cold, we dug our shallow trenches as dawn broke and the long day began. Hasty brews of tea and coffee were followed by the nerve-shattering, mind-numbing sounds of war, as enemy shells and mortars exploded around us showering us with the black earth of this treeless windswept terrain.

Even in the heat of battle, the "Toms" the young soldiers of Two Para, went out of their way to help me. Noticing that the inept "civvy" in the adjoining trench had lost his gloves, two paratroopers delved into their kit to find a spare pair for me. On the hillside ahead, the enemy trench had been overrun but their hidden mortars and artillery continued to harass us with ear-shattering explosions. Our blowpipe missiles and machineguns brought down many of the Pukara aircraft that screeched overhead in nerve-jangling strafing attacks. Argentine prisoners, hands on head in abject misery, filed, down through the murky clouds of gunsmoke bodies of their dead comrades lay in neat rows, in our damp, shell-holed field.

We moved up to the hill overlooking the twin towns of white houses, standing on an attractive inlet, reminiscent of a Scandinavian fjord. The deadly mortar shells crashed around us and the little Pukaras sprayed their bullets. Throughout the afternoon I was pinned down among the spikey gorse bushes of Coronation Hill, the Goose Green objective more than a mile away. The shells that exploded around me reduced this once pleasant place known to generations of Goose Green courting couples as "the bower" to a place of horror, a place of fire, cordite and billowing black smoke. There was no hiding place.

A young Lancastrian Royal engineer stoically enjoying a bar of chocolate as he crouched behind a gorse bush, said: "You could get it anywhere so why not stay here and have a brew?" By dusk, the hills of Goose Green were ours. On the beach below. medics were working hard to help the wounded both British and Argentinian. Young prisoners, shivering in their mud-stained uniforms, wept and crossed themselves as tough "paras" stood guard. More than a hundred captured Argentines lined the against the darkening brought down the injured gravelly beach, as stretcher silhouetted eerily and the dead.

Flames lit up the gloom and we choked on cordite fumes and smoke as we toured the silent battlefield. A paratroop sergeant major from Derby told me: "Today we fought against soldiers. It made a change from fighting cowards in Northern Ireland." Freezing rain came with the darkness as we pre- Kirkpatrick, Reagan talk after dispute Associated Press Haig Jr. were discussed, Newsweek magazine issue that the UN ambassador by telephone last week land Island crisis. WASHINGTON UN Ambassador patrick, at odds with the Reagan icy in the Falkland Islands dispute, ing she requested with President Reagan.

The White House said Reagan met with Kirkpatrick for about 40 minutes yesterday. Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said the meeting concerned pending UN business, including the Falklands. He said he did not know whether reports of a dispute between Kirkpatrick and Secretary of State Alexander Jeane Kirkadministration pol- has had a meetKirkpatrick or prompted the meeting. reported in its current and Haig traded barbs over U.S. policy in the Falk- pared for a wet, cold night on the hill.

The regimental sergeant major an awesome figure of stern efficiency turned to me and said quietly: "The lads fought tremendously. It was war thill first they have seen of real battle. I don't think I ever shout at them again." Crowding for warmth round the still burning gorse, the voices in the darkness told the story of the day of pride and sadness: of lost mates, and of exploits before the blazing Argentinian guns. "He was getting married next one disembodied voice informed me sadly. "Got it in the head best pal I ever had." Dawn.

Maj. Keeble, thrust into command by the death of was preparing his final, and, as it turned out, peaceful assault on Goose Green. Two Argentinian Argentine choice: death or di dishonor KENNETH CLARKE by the hour, the Argentine Military Committee flict, this madness, in which many pieces of London Telegraph has to decide whether to give that order or to equipment and many lives have been lost. We consider hoisting the white flag. can replace the equipment but not the men." As Royal Marines and paratroopers readied Some in the inner circles favor surrender.

Admiral Asara said he did not accept that the gentine military commanders last night faced adviser to the commander of the Argentine navy "They are not worth fighting he said. themselves for the final push on Stanley, the Ar- The man who has come out most publicly is the Falklands justified the number, of casulaties. their biggest dilemma. The Argentines have in instigators of the April 2 invasion and he Nonetheless, the latest official communique the Falklands capital an estimated 8,000 men, does not think the Falklands are worth great loss in Buenos Aires claimed the Argentine air force mostly marines professional soldiers who of life. was still bombing British positions.

A military would obey the command "fight to the death." Rear Adm. Asara has told Western spokesman said Argentine marines and other But with the inevitability of defeat growing journalists: "It is difficult to understand this con- troops in Stanley would not surrender. Islanders claim army looting ROBERT A. ERLANDSON Baltimore Sun DAVID NORRIS London Telegraph LONDON When Argentine forces occupied the Falkland Islands in early April, in name of national liberation, Buenos the Aires government said the islanders and their property would be respected. But a different, and grim, picture of the reality of life under the occupation began to emerge yesterday from the first accounts reaching here from newsmen with the advancing British forces which have begun liberating island settlements.

The reporters' interviews with islanders have produced stories of imprisonment and robbery of the civilians, looting of their homes, a virtual reign of terror in some villages. The first report came from Robert Fox, of the BBC, who was with the paratroopers who recaptured Darwin and Goose Green Saturday after a fierce battle. He reported: "For nearly a month, 114 people had been shut up by the Argentines in a community hall. Their houses had been raided, with furniture smashed and excrement left on the floor. The store had been looted; the Argentine troops were under-fed end and in one house used by pilots, it seemed the officers were hoarding tinned food.

Argentines committed acts of petty meanness, smashing and stealing radios and shooting up a shepherd from a helicopter as he tended his sheep," Fox reported, is adding: "Now the prisoners are being made to clear up the mess they made in the settlement." by Max Hastings, of London's Evening Standard newspaper, was at the liberation of Darwin, the first settlement freed by British troops the who advanced from their Port San sent Carlos bridgehead Thursday. Hastings interviewed Robert WAR, from 1A 7,000 Argentines concentrated around backup force reportedly came from Queen Elizabeth 2, which is serving as a The Defense Ministry refused to ing report. Two British forces had been advancing Royal Marines and paratroopers moving helicopter from the San Carlo beachhead, paratroop force coming around from capturing the Goose Green airstrip and prisoners. British press reports said the two up for the assault on Stanley. The ministry said British Harrier continued to pound the Stanley airstrip of the town, and "a number" of Argentine were believed damaged.

Press Association reported that Associated Press Argentine troops walk past chicken coops on the Falklands in this official government photo Analysis Victory could be hollow for British David Owen, a former foreign secretary, has suggested, "Fortress Falklands." They would have to be garrisoned and supplied by convoy. London Telegraph The islands would be in danger of becoming, as LONDON As victory in the South Atlantic war draws near, there is an increasing awareness in some quarters of government that Britain's problems won't when the Union flag is hoisted over Stanley. Unless a negotiated settlement is in sight, the occasion could only be the beginning of a new phase in the conflict. There is fear that even if the Galtieri regime collapses, a new government will wage a war of attrition against Britain. Concern centers on the future of the islands.

There little support in the Foreign Office for the view of Defense Minister John Nott that the Falkland Islands might be turned into a British micro-state, guaranteed neighboring states. Hardcastle, the local Falkland Island a message to ployers which events since the Stanley. The the luxury liner troop carrier. confirm the land- westward Stanley, ey, and another the south after 1,400 Argentine forces had linked fighter-bombers miles east light planes British warships "Very thankful to be liberated 5 p.m. 28th, Goose Green, 29th.

Some houses destroyed; all employees and visitors safe. All were confined to recreation hall since May 1. Moreover, there would be considerable damage to Britain's political and economic position in Latin America, which mostly supports Argentina's claim to sovereignty and might back it with sanctions. Thus, victory should not be pressed too hard. The United Nations secretary-general must be given another chance to find a peace formula.

That would mean leaving a diplomatic escape route open for Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, with the British task force settling down for a siege rather than an assault on Stanley. manager for Company, who his London emdescribed briefly Argentine invasion: moved to within two miles of the Stanley harbor to shell Argentine fortifications. As the British forces move steadily forward, the tenor of statements from Argentina's ruling junta and from its newspapers changed in an apparent effort to prepare the Argentine public to accept a defeat and convince it at the same time that this constituted a victory in disguise. Galtieri met for 40 minutes yesterday with the Soviet ambassador to Argentina, Sergei Striganov.

The ambassador told reporters he expressed "the Soviet Union's friendly feelings as regards Argentina's difficult fight" to hold the islands. Striganov said nothing about Soviet military aid to Argentina. He said his government was "already helping Argentina politically and diplomatically in the UN Security Council." Ruth Cann Fahnestock, 63, dies of cancer Services will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow for Ruth Cann Fahnestock, 63, who died yesterday of cancer. She was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and had lived in Miami since 1924.

She graduated from Miami Senior High School and attended Florida State University, then known as Florida State College for Women. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Lithgow North Miami, with services tomorrow followed absolq not co cowards' prisoners, brandishing makeshift white flags, had been sent to Goose Green with two messages: "Let the civilian population go and continue the fight, or surrender." The Argentinian commanding wanted to see us. I joined Maj. Keeble's six-man delegation to walk through no-man's land leaving the last British position at a farm gate and crossing a rain-swept field to our rendezvous, a corrugated iron We were met by an Argentinian aide, waving his own white flag, and ushered into the hut to face the stocky, hawk-nosed Wilson Drossier Petroza, boss of Argentinian President Galtieri's second biggest Falklands stronghold and leader of the 1,500 men who defended Goose Green and Port Darwin.

Through a Royal Marines interpreter, we introduced ourselves and learned that the sad-faced Petroza, an air commander, was ready, to capitulate. Equally matched numbers, his had been overwhelmed by the fury of the British attack. He would, said Maj. Keeble, be allowed to surrender with dignity, if his men laid down their arms. Petroza left with his aides to contact the supreme commander in Stanley on our two-way radio.

Maj. Keeble ordered his men not to fire on Argentinian patrols. The Argentinian, for his part, had pointed to a British patrol on the skyline and warned that they were about to enter a minefield. Thirty minutes later, it was all over. Fifteen hundred Argentinian soldiers, airmen and sailors stood at attention in a field overlooking the painted, corrugated iron roofs of Goose Green, sang their national anthem and hurled their weapons to the ground.

Maj. Keeble formally accepted the surrender, along with Petroza's pistol, and told me: "This was his (Colonel H's) victory not mine." As the paras moved in to take charge of the prisoners, I walked into Goose Green, along the muddy main street, past the neat wooden houses and the abandoned enemy guns to the Social Club Hall where, for 29 days, the local people had lived, guarded by gun-toting Argentinians. Children ran to meet the first British soldiers, offering sweets and drinks, as the Union flag, brought by the paras, was run up. Settlement manager Eric Ross broke down in tears. "It was all too much.

They were worse than animals. They have made pigsties of our homes and robbed us." DEATH NOTICES Classified Advertising MA-01 Death Notices AUSLANDER LILLIAN of M.B. Services Tues. 11:00 A.M. at the chapel with interment at Lakeside Cemetery.

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