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Until last week, Pérez de Cuéllar's effort had seemed to offer the best chance for peace. The newly elected Secretary-General had first volunteered his services as a mediator on April 30, the day Haig announced the end of his own talks. Pérez de Cuéllar presented each side with a settlement plan based on a ceasefire, mutual troop withdrawals and an interim U.N. administration of the islands while the two nations held direct negotiations over the crucial issue of sovereignty...
...some of his fellow diplomats at United Nations headquarters in New York City, there is a sweet irony in the fact that newly named Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 62, is acting as the intermediary who is seeking a compromise between London and Buenos Aires over the Falklands crisis. The tall, white-haired Peruvian is himself a compromise choice for a job that many doubted he could fill. When China consistently vetoed an unprecedented third term as Secretary-General for Kurt Waldheim and the U.S. would not accept Tanzanian Foreign Minister Salim Ahmed Salim...
...Falklands crisis is by far the most serious issue Pérez de Cuéllar has faced, and those who worked with him wondered how he would handle it. He is so self-effacing at times that on at least one occasion he was asked by a guard at the U.N. to produce identification. One of his favorite diplomatic words is caution. His fanaticism for order drives him to rearrange other people's bookshelves...
...Cuéllar was not certain that he would be regarded as an objective mediator by both sides. The Secretary-General and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros, with whom he is dealing, were not only fellow South Americans and diplomatic neighbors but longtime personal friends as well. Pérez de Cuéllar told TIME's Louis Halasz: "I thought that perhaps at some stage British public opinion would say, 'This gentleman is from South America and he might tilt toward the Argentines.' But I must say the British government has always given...
...quiet way, Pérez de Cuéllar had shown before that he could be an effective go-between. In 1975, while representing Peru in the U.N., he was tapped by Waldheim to try to start talks between Greece and Turkey in the wake of Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus. Pérez de Cuéllar succeeded. He later took on a similar assignment to sort out difficulties between Afghanistan and Pakistan following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...