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...Reagan Administration to side more openly with Britain. The Senate voted 79 to 1 in favor of a pro-British resolution that called on the U.S. Government to "use all appropriate means to assist the British government." Haig, meanwhile, cabled his settlement proposals directly to the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina for transmission to that country's junta. Two days later the answer came back via Argentine Ambassador to Washington Estaban Takács: No. With that, the U.S. moved to back the British...
...sanctions announced by Haig are more important diplomatically than they are in economic terms. While Haig has been fostering improved relations with Argentina, American assistance to that country has not recovered from the chilly period when the Carter Administration was outspokenly critical of an earlier Argentine junta's human rights record...
...military assistance of consequence would have needed congressional approval. The loan guarantees from the federal Commodity Credit Corporation are used mainly for financing the sale of American agricultural products abroad; but Argentina is a major agricultural exporter, especially to the Soviet Union, and was expected to receive only $2 million in loan guarantees this year. The most important sanction was on credits from the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which will affect $500 million in Argentine purchases of hydroelectric equipment. Despite the sanctions, the U.S. would remain among Argentina's largest foreign trading partners. Argentina last year...
Denouncing Argentina's invasion of the Falklands last week, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher observed that "if actions like this were allowed to stand, there would be many territories the world over where people would fear the invader." Indeed, the globe is littered with hundreds of conflicting territorial claims. Many of these controversies, such as the Austrian claim to the Italian-held South Tyrol, lie happily dormant. Others are the source of sharp protests, active negotiations and open conflict. The outcome in the Falklands will thus be closely watched by those tempted to settle such questions by force...
Beagle Channel. War nearly broke out in 1978 over Argentina's claim to three islands held by Chile in the channel south of Tierra del Fuego. Pope John Paul II proposed a plan of settlement to both sides in December 1980. Chile accepted, but Argentina refused...