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...face the classic problem of transporting the feature star to center stage without getting him mobbed. If you are Lieut. Colonel James Hackett, 50, of the St. Louis police force, you enlist that myopic master of outrageous disguise from Middlesex, England, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. In standard police clothing and cruiser, Hackett and Dwight then casually drive the 15 blocks to the Gateway Arch. Once backstage, Dwight looks around, then begins to peel the blue to reveal a black matador outfit trimmed with gold sequins, a gold belt and a pink sash, and his true identity for more than a decade...
...Argies used to give sweets to the kids and ask them if there were British soldiers in the area." He also reports that the Argentine soldiers told the citizens that henceforth Port Stanley was to be called Porto Argentina, and the settlement of Darwin, Belgrano, after the sunk cruiser. That was about the extent of their impositions. Still, there was some passive resistance to the Argentines by the residents. No one would tell the invaders, for instance, how to turn on the water for the toilet in the new school hostel...
...llar's efforts were helped by the fact that both London and Buenos Aires were sobered by the sinking two weeks ago of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, with 321 fatalities, and the British destroyer Sheffield, which lost 20 men. Britain had backed away from a demand for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Argentine troops from the Falklands. In their talks with Pérez de Cuéllar, the British also indicated that they would accept a temporary U.N. administration of the Falklands...
...determination that reigned in Argentina as the population reacted to a major exchange of blows last week in the battle for the Falklands. After a series of seemingly effortless British successes-the retaking of South Georgia Island, the bombing of the Falklands' airstrips and the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano-Argentines savored the notion that in destroying H.M.S. Sheffield they had evened the score. Declared a Buenos Aires taxi driver: "We're going to clobber the English so hard they'll know who the Argentines...
When Reagan was told late at night that the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano had gone down, his first question was about the loss of life. The casualties profoundly affected Reagan and in his view altered the chemistry of the crisis. He became increasingly distressed as the numbers mounted, since these deaths deepen distrust and hatred...