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government should negotiate sirengul when acallg wild dictatorships, as did the Labour ment,' said Labour's International Committee in. rejecting Tony Benn's motion to stop the Labour's cabinet virtually equipped the Argentine and Chilean dictatorships. Arms These arms were sold ban on arms sales to the juntas of Chile and Argentina. The government sup cent of Chile's arms.

It tried to sack Eric 8 type 21 frigates WG-13 Lynx helicopters July the Labour government suftered a disastrous serback An order for further frigates : was lost to Blohm and Vos of West Germany, worth £500m.

Smarting this humiliating rebuff HMS Par dispatched 1 al batness, armed to the teeth for tour of Latin America — to sell the arms to the dictators there.

This saved the day and subcontracts worth £100m were given to Rolls Royce, Westland and David Brown. Vickers won con tracts for two T-42 frigates, and in December armed the junta: the Tories kept out the refugees Lest we forget: demonstrating against the World Cup visit in 1978. Healey