Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they respect each other as politicians who scored almost simultaneous electoral triumphs, even though as late as 1980 both were widely regarded as has-beens. In addition, they have found common ground on some foreign policy issues. Both fear that if Britain presses the Falkland Islands war with Argentina to a total military victory, relations between Latin America and the Western allies could be poisoned for years. But Reagan apparently refrained from urging that view on Thatcher last week...
...Port Stanley could not only lead to appalling casualties on both sides but further inflame Latin American bitterness against both Britain and the U.S. It might also allow the Soviets to gain influence in a strategically important corner of the South Atlantic by offering aid to a beleaguered Argentina...
...first words upon arrival at Gatwick Airport captured his extraordinary, characteristic boldness. "My visit is taking place at a time of tension and anxiety," he said, though not mentioning the Falkland Islands by name. He pointedly appealed for prayers for peace. But besides that ever fiercer war with Argentina, where he now plans to travel next week, John Paul spoke to the religious conflict of the centuries. For the Pope was visiting a nation that symbolizes, perhaps as no other, rebellion against the papal office...
Later that day, during an address to the Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales, John Paul made a moving plea for peace, saying that he was in close union with the bishops of both Britain and Argentina. Said he: "Together, my brother bishops, we must proclaim that peace is possible...
...Mass for peace at the Vatican the weekend before last, with both British and Argentine Cardinals concelebrating, the lines were well formed. Arrayed in favor from the start were the British bishops. Opposed were key members of the Curia-and, most notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored the trip but turned against the idea when the battles began; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, prefect of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America...