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Like wary boxers who had learned they could be hurt, Britain and Argentina traded cautious punches last week around the Falkland Islands. The military action was restrained: both sides drew blood, but neither tried to aim a knockout blow in their South Atlantic confrontation. The reason: there were continuing prospects for a diplomatic resolution of the six-week crisis...
...planes, the combatants exchanged peace proposals through U.N. Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. To be sure, the hopes for a diplomatic settlement were fragile. The greatest gulf between the disputants was still caused by the central issue: the ultimate disposition of the Falklands. But Argentina's Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez optimistically declared: "We are closer to peace than we are to war." Said Sir Anthony Parsons, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N.: "I think we are making progress again." Declared Pérez de Cuéllar on Friday: "There...
...effort to persuade the Argentines to budge on the thorny issue of Falklands sovereignty, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig sent Retired General Vernon Walters, a trusted troubleshooter, to Buenos Aires. Haig has also been urging other Latin American governments to intercede with Argentina, to little avail...
...Britain has already made too many concessions. Such accusations drew an angry riposte from Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, who stoutly insisted that "our resolve has not wavered. Our military presence in the South Atlantic is continuing to become stronger. If, in the end, Argentine intransigence prevented success in negotiations, Argentina will know there is another kind of ending to this crisis...
...invasion plan is the result of a compromise within Prime Minister Thatcher's five-member war cabinet. According to top-level British sources, Thatcher herself favors a frontal assault on Port Stanley, currently the Argentine strongpoint. She has also considered a British air strike against Argentina's mainland airbases. But the more cautious members of her inner circle, notably Foreign Secretary Pym and Deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw, are anxious to keep the avenues for a diplomatic solution open to the very end. They also fear heavy British casualties. Accordingly, they made a bargain with Thatcher, trading their...