Word: argentina
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Haig shuttles grimly, the British steam, and Argentina digs...
...threat of war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands caught the U.S. unawares-"an intelligence failure on our part," as one American official put it-and that uncertainty cast a dark cloud over the President's holiday. Just before leaving Washington on Wednesday, Reagan decided to send Secretary of State Alexander Haig to London and Buenos Aires to see if he could do anything to head off a confrontation...
...Ronald Reagan it is one of those times. The unexpected, like Argentina's seizure of the Falkland Islands, piles on the inevitable, like the winding down of Leonid the power in Moscow, which adds to the unfathomable, like the nagging persistence of high interest rates. The rising clamor against nuclear arms, the threat of Israeli action against Lebanon, the stalemate with Congress over the budget are other complications as we rush into a momentous spring...
Galtieri has remained more committed to attempting to revive Argentina's crippled economy than to restoring democracy. As Commander in Chief of the army, a post he still holds along with the presidency and membership in the three-man junta, he once boasted that "the ballot boxes are well stored away and they will remain well stored away." Politicians, in Galtieri's view, often stand in the way of Argentina's ambitions. Says he: "We don't want to be a country. We want to be a great country. The Argentine problem is that there hasn...
Working behind the scenes to settle the crisis, the United States should put extra pressure on Argentina to withdraw and should not hesitate to threaten that nation with economic sanctions and bans on imports. As long as the United States has chosen to establish cordial ties with Argentina, it must use that economic lever age as a bargaining chip...