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...settling the dispute. Irish Defense Minister Patrick Power went a dubious step further and declared that "obviously, the British are very much the aggressors now." For that, Power received a public reprimand from Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey, but the change in feelings was clear. Explained one Irish diplomat: "The level of casualties is getting so high that somebody had to take the initiative." Ireland called for an immediate meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss an end to hostilities...
French business interests, distressed by the Socialists' nationalization program, the initial trend toward taxes and expanded workers' benefits, are relieved by the moderating efforts of Finance Minister Jacques Delors. In the corporate community, notes one Paris-based diplomat, Delors is admired as "a sound, realistic numbers man, the lifeline to reality in a world of Socialist schoolteachers who have never met a payroll." Delors clearly had a part in narrowing the scope of the nationalization program that had been an integral element of the Socialist-Communist platform since 1972. Certain French subsidiaries of large foreign firms, such...
Even so, the Thatcher government has advised the roughly 17,000 British subjects in the country to leave, and British officials in Buenos Aires are asking them to register at the Swiss embassy, which is handling London's interests. "We're just counting our flock," says one diplomat. So are the Argentines: plain-clothes policemen are reported to be conducting a census of Britons in Buenos Aires. Anglo-Argentines are feeling suddenly vulnerable in a country where weeks ago it was a mark of status to be British. Says one nervous Anglo-Argentine: "Everybody's scared...
...group also agreed on overall military strategy. As they have been doing all along, the British intend to step up pressure on the Argentines by stages. As a senior British diplomat described them for TIME'S Frank Melville: Stage 1 ended with the retaking of South Georgia. Stage 2 began with last week's imposition of the sea and air blockade of the Falklands and the strikes on the island airfields. Stage 3 could include bombing runs against air-bases on the Argentine mainland and a major ground assault against the Argentine forces on the Falklands...
...Argentine diplomat declared that the U.S. mediation effort was "suspended" and that his country was "technically at war" with Britain. Costa Méndez took his case to a Washington meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. There Argentina intended to invoke the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, to which the U.S. is a party. That pact, also known as the Treaty of Rio, stipulates that an armed attack against any one of the signatories will be considered an attack against them all and provides for various sanctions against the aggressor...