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Show r Argentine marines take Falkland 1 Islands -'' BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -About ,l'W Argentine marines seized the potentially oil-rich British Falkland i Islands Friday, repelling a 78-man con-..fegent con-..fegent of British defenders in a beachhead battle that killed one Argentine Argen-tine officer and wounded two others. Britain cut diplomatic relations and famed it would '"sustain and defend ! I Falkland Islands to the best of our ability" with force if necessary. Monday a British armada sailed for e Argentine-occupied Falkland Islands. Defense Secretary John Natt calling a peaceful solution "unlikely," -' Britain could mount a blockade in toe South Atlantic "without any " distance from our allies" and would "arm the Falklands "if it the only and Mcessary course." ? 'Argentine President Gen. Leopold F. wltieri told reporters in Buenos Aires f "if the Argentine people are at-acked at-acked by military forces, be it land, Bval, or air forces, the Argentine " "ton in arms will do battle with all the pns at its disposal. I i |