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In Britain the sinking remains highly controversial. Critics say the attack escalated the conflict and destroyed hopes of a negotiated settlement under a Peruvian peace plan. But members of the Thatcher government have repeatedly defended the decision. Although it was discussed in Parliament and elsewhere, the most famous intervention was housewife Diana Gould's grilling of the Prime Minister on a BBC discussion show later in May 1982. Quoting compass bearings, Mrs Gould, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, repeatedly asserted that the cruiser was sailing away from the exclusion zone rather than towards it and accused Mrs Thatcher of sabotaging any hopes of a negotiated settlement. Denying that the ship had been sailing away from the fleet, Mrs Thatcher accepted it was outside the exclusion zone. "But it was in an area which we had warned (about) at the end of April. We had given warnings that all ships in those areas, if they represented a danger to our ships, were vulnerable..." she said. "My duty was to look after our troops, our ships, our navy and my goodness me I lived with many, many anxious days and nights." In a polite but heated exchange, Mrs Gould repeatedly challenged Mrs Thatcher on the question of whether the ship was sailing away from the Falklands. Giving orders to sink the Belgrano when it was actually sailing away from our fleet was in effect sabotaging any possibility of any peace plan succeeding, she claimed. The encounter made Mrs Gould an overnight icon of the peace camp but reviled by others. Now in her 80s and still living in Cirencester, she has declined a series of requests from the media for interviews on the 25th anniversary, saying simply: "I stand by everything I said."

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