Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Latin American leaders who are condemning the U.S. for its actions are missing the point [June 7]. U.S. foreign policy is not anti-Argentina or anti-Latin America, but rather anti-aggression. If Britain had invaded Buenos Aires, our Government would have undoubtedly sided with Argentina...
Secretary of State Haig should have gone immediately to the Organization of American States and pleaded that Argentina is wrong. Even if the members disagreed, they would have respected us for coming to them first...
Latin Americans were not stunned when Argentina refused to take part in the U.S. grain embargo against the U.S.S.R., thereby leaving us holding the bag-alone. They have also not been upset when two of their countries threw in their lots with OPEC, which put the screws...
They are all smiles when they stand at our door with their hands out, only later to raise those hands, clutching American arms, against us. The whole world knows the sympathies expressed by Argentina during World...
...what he threatens to do. The Falklands are of purely symbolic importance to the contenders. Control of southern Lebanon is of vital practical advantage to each side. Between the British and the Argentines there was a history of compatibility; between the Israelis and the P.L.O., a history of hatred. Argentina is conservative and antiCommunist; the P.L.O. radical and Communist supported. In the Falklands, the U.S. was watching friend fight friend; in Lebanon, an ally was going up against an enemy that has little affection for the U.S. And there were the physical differences of climate; of sea battles vs. land...