Northwood Headquarters. "A high ranking British military source" said: " When the war broke out, we ourselves almost didn't have any intelligence information from this area. It was here we got help from the Norwegians, who gave us a stream of information about the Argentine warships' positions. The information came to us all the time and straight to our war headquarters at Northwood. The information was continuously updated and told us exactly where the Argentine ships were. " The Nowegians were NATO members and helped Britain from the start. How times change, indeed America today is the one who criticises the UN (and indeed the French) for doing exactly the same as they did in 1982. "We're their allies - so why aren't they ours"? - Britain's Relationship with the America. British Defence Secretary during the Falklands, Sir John Nott said of the French: "In so many ways Mitterrand and the French were our greatest allies,". As soon as the conflict began, France made available to Britain Super-Etendard and Mirage aircraft - which it had supplied to Argentina - so Harrier pilots could train against them. The French also gave Britain information on the Exocet showing how to tamper with it. Sir John contrasted the French attitude with America's attempts to find a face-saving deal for President Galtieri, the Argentine dictator."For all Margaret Thatcher's friendship with Ronald Reagan, he remained a West Coast American looking south to Latin America and west to the Pacific. Sometimes I wondered if he even