Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuba, too, the Falklands present an opportunity to insinuate itself with Argentina and other Latin American neighbors after years of isolation. Havana's ambassador to Buenos Aires, Emilio Aragones Navarro, went so far as to say that "we ought to be fighting. The cause of the Malvinas is the cause of Cuba, of Latin America and of the Third World." Yet despite the self-serving rhetoric of the Soviets and their clients, the majority view is that the Falklands will not inflate into an East-West showdown. "Frankly, I do not see the danger of this escalating to that...
...claims should be solved by law rather than military aggression. As a senior State Department official said last week: "The simple bottom line is that aggression cannot be, and cannot be seen to be, rewarded." The short-term consequences of the U.S. decision to oppose, firmly if perhaps belatedly, Argentina's invasion of the disputed islands is clearly harmful to Reagan's Latin American policies. But, unlike the long-term consequences that would come from condoning such action, the damage is, or ought to be, reparable. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Johanna McGeary,Bruce W. Nelan/Washington
Until last week the President accepted the British theory that a show of force would drive Argentina into negotiations before there was significant loss of life. With the attack on the Sheffield and rising indignation against the U.S. throughout Latin America, Reagan conceded that this idea had been a miscalculation. Some of the President's advisers concluded that perhaps they had abandoned evenhandedness a bit too dramatically, even though Reagan's luck seemed to be holding. A reminder for next time: more finesse...
Although the foreign press corps in Argentina has swelled to 740, reports from there were distressingly thin. Foreign correspondents were ordered out of the areas closest to the Falklands, and three British journalists, arrested April 13 and charged with being spies, remained in jail in Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world. Reporting was not much easier in Buenos Aires. "The big thing is access," says David Miller, bureau manager of the 27-strong CBS team, "and we just don't have it. In most countries the military will set up show-and-tell sessions. Not here...
...Argentines and British. Indeed, to cancel the trip might imply that Britain is in the wrong and thus exacerbate antipapal feelings there. Militant Protestants have already marched in the streets of several British cities to protest the expected visit. While a go decision would naturally not sit well with Argentina, the planning has reached such an advanced state that cancellation at this point might generate more static than it would prevent. And last week John Paul, in a general audience at St. Peter's, again appealed for a negotiated settlement in the Falklands crisis...