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...most of the week from the frigid waters around the disputed islands to secluded conference rooms in the United Nations Secretariat building in Manhattan. Even as they continued to spar with warships and planes, the combatants exchanged peace proposals through U.N. Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. To be sure, the hopes for a diplomatic settlement were fragile. The greatest gulf between the disputants was still caused by the central issue: the ultimate disposition of the Falklands. But Argentina's Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez optimistically declared: "We are closer to peace than...
...General's plan made no mention of the issue of ultimate sovereignty. Argentina was insisting that sovereignty is nonnegotiable, and Britain maintained that any settlement must respect the self-determination of the 1,800 Falkland Islanders, who are heavily in favor of remaining British. Pérez de Cuéllar set a midweek target for British and Argentine responses to his ideas, and a closed-door informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council was called the following day to consider the issue...
Argentina might well have had something like that in mind. The first response from Buenos Aires was to reject the Peruvian proposal out of hand. Then the junta seemed to reconsider. But on Wednesday, the Argentines informed Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar that they were examining the U.N. peace proposals with, as he put it, "great interest and a sense of urgency." A Foreign Ministry statement also declared that "the first step toward a solution must be an immediate cease-fire." There was no mention of military withdrawal. Britain's insistence on the opposite course...
...should be recognized." He reiterated that the country is "open to any diplomatic negotiations as long as they do not affect its honor and legitimate rights." The Argentines sent Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros to New York City to "explore the ideas" of Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar on peace in the Falklands and to provide unspecified "comments" on them...
Aside from Union's efforts, the only other major synthetic-fuels project in the U.S. is the partially completed $2.1 billion Great Plains Coal Gasification Project near Beulah, N. Dak. The plant is scheduled to produce 125 million cu. ft. of high-quality natural gas daily, from 14,000 tons of coal, by December...