Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maintains it and decides to patrol the Falklands forever, as much as two-thirds of the British navy will be bobbing in the South Atlantic, and NATO will be looking to the U.S. for yet more money and more ships. Unless Britain uses the moment wisely, Argentina may also be radicalized out of reach, rejecting its bumbling junta but also rejecting some of its bumbling Western friends. The U.S. must repair its relationship with the region as well, in which, unlike Britain, it has permanent interests...
...more abstract, but just as real. One is simply the exasperation always felt at watching diplomacy devolve to bloodshed. Another is the childish reactions that events like these inevitably bring out, especially in observers. Both wars have been remarkable for their displays of weapons and tactics. The effects of Argentina's Exocet missiles are still benumbing to consider. The story, when finally told, of how the Israelis adapted their E-2C Hawkeye surveillance planes to take out the Syrian MiGs is bound to enter national legend. Descriptions of what the new equipment can do are spellbinding: ECMs, HUDs, jamming...
...declared: "There is no point wailing about what might have been." Possibly. But that palliative countermands all the earlier sage advice proffered by that selfsame publication, and by this one and by every other voice that lobs words against tanks. The P.L.O. could have forsworn terrorism with words. Britain, Argentina and Israel could have negotiated with words. All took other ways. That may be the abiding basis for dissatisfaction with these two victories; that and the reappearance of the monster nationalism, which, at the slightest chance, turns civilizations back to tribes...
...hardly had the white flags of surrender been hoisted over the island capital of Port Stanley when a set of new, potentially more formidable problems emerged. Three days after Britain's triumph, Argentina's top generals ousted President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri. He was temporarily replaced as President by yet another general, Interior Minister Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, and as army chief by Major General Cristino Nicolaides. Said Galtieri, following his removal from power: "I am going because the army did not give me the political support to continue." In fact, Galtieri's fall may have been hastened...
...week's end Argentina's leaders still refused to admit military defeat. Clinging to the position that had doomed all efforts at a negotiated settlement before the guns were unleashed in the South Atlantic, the Argentines insisted that their claim to sovereignty over the Falklands be negotiated as part of any settlement. Buenos Aires warned that any cease-fire in the Falklands would be "precarious" so long as British forces remained on the islands. While the Argentines seemed willing to suspend hostilities for the moment, they left open the possibility of further fighting. If the fragile cease-fire...