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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...
...rhetoric of the belligerents grew harsher, U.N. Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar, facing his first frontline test as the U.N.'s top diplomat, was attempting to ease the tension. Perez de Cuellar had assumed responsibility for mediating the dispute on April 30, after a month-long peace-keeping effort by U.S. Secretary of State Haig ended in failure. Perez's peace proposals do not differ markedly from those originally put forward by Haig. They include: 1) a ceasefire; 2) phased and corresponding withdrawal of Argentine troops and the British fleet; 3) establishment...
Unlike Haig, however, Pérez de Cuéllar has concentrated on the procedural details, such as the sequence of troop withdrawals and the membership of the interim administration, rather than the substantive differences between the disputants, The key to Pérez de Cuéllar's mediation has been to avoid all discussion of the most difficult issue: ultimate sovereignty over the islands...
...Cuéllar'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...
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...