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...during their occupation. A sheep farmer in San Carlos said, "The Argies used to give sweets to the kids and ask them if there were British soldiers in the area." He also reports that the Argentine soldiers told the citizens that henceforth Port Stanley was to be called Porto Argentina, and the settlement of Darwin, Belgrano, after the sunk cruiser. That was about the extent of their impositions. Still, there was some passive resistance to the Argentines by the residents. No one would tell the invaders, for instance, how to turn on the water for the toilet...
With a maximum cruising speed of only 690 m.p.h., the Sea Harrier would seem to be at a disadvantage against Argentina's faster Mirage III-EAs. But in the Falklands, the Mirages have to sacrifice speed as, heavily loaded, they come in low to try to get under the radar. The Harrier fights best low and slow. With its maneuverability, it can stop in midair, hover, veer off sharply in new directions and land on almost any flat surface. Armed with 1,000-lb. cluster bombs for ground attack, and 30-mm guns and U.S.-built AIM-9L Sidewinder...
That gesture seemed to confirm a fear that has haunted U.S. policymakers almost from the day Argentina seized the Falkland Islands: that there was no way the U.S. could side with Britain, a loyal NATO ally, without alienating much of Latin America. Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins, a U.S. friend only a few months ago and now Argentina's most vocal supporter in South America, declared last month: "It is already clear that the country that will lose the most in this confrontation between Britain and Latin America will be the U.S." Panama President Aristides Royo has accused...
...effort to contain the damage, Haig delivered a conciliatory response to Costa Méndez. He rejected Argentina's demand for application of the 1947 Treaty of Rio, which calls upon the U.S. and 20 other signatories to come to each other's aid in the event of aggression from outside the hemisphere, on the ground that the first use of force in the Falklands crisis did not come from a non-American nation. A few days earlier, Haig had tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory...
...demonstrations urging " Yanqui go home." Nor were there any anti-American mobs of the sort that pelted Vice President Richard Nixon with eggs in 1958 and forced Governor Nelson Rockefeller to cancel official visits to Chile, Peru and Venezuela in 1969. Although popular sentiment has been running in Argentina's favor, the most violent reactions have been the burning of a few British and U.S. flags in Caracas...