Word: falkland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gamble would have paid off, he continues, were it not for the Falkland Islands War of 1982. "Instead of taking votes from all parties, we were only able to take them from one [Labour]," he remarks. "We succeeded in getting almost as many votes as the Left...
...settlement at all was welcome after the rocky and rancorous negotiations. As the expiration date on the British lease approached, Hong Kong businesses planning 15-year loans and long-term projects grew increasingly uncomfortable. In September 1982, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her triumph in the Falkland Islands, went to Peking and, somewhat injudiciously, declared that Britain would "stick by" its treaties regarding Hong Kong. For their part, the Chinese insisted that the issue of Britain's retaining sovereignty was not even negotiable. The two countries remained effectively deadlocked, while China issued public threats and promises...
Then, too, journalism necessarily deals with discontinuities. One has never heard of the Falkland Islands. Suddenly the Falklands are the center of the universe; one knows all there is to know about "kelpers" and Port Stanley; sheep jokes abound. In the end, as at the beginning, no one really knows anything about the Falkland Islands other than the war that gave it momentary celebrity-nothing about the people in the aftermath of the war, their concerns, isolation, or their true relationship to Argentina and Britain. Discontinuities are valuable because they point up the world's variety as well...
...list is hyperinflation: the monthly cost of living jumped by 18.5% in April, which is equal to an annual rate of 560.2%. In most countries, newspaper headlines and gossip focus on crime or sports; in Argentina, there is a morbid fascination with the economy. Even during the Falkland Islands war with Britain, the major topic of conversation continued to be the pocketbook. People are also intensely interested in talking about Argentina's $43.6 billion foreign debt, which represents about 75% of last year's gross domestic product...
...been to use the country as a military pawn. To avoid Congressional disapproval over covert military actions in Nicaragua, Reagan requested that the then-Argentina military junta and train anti-Sandinista guerilla to attack from bases in Honderas. The Argentines agreed. But when the country tried to claim the Falkland Islands, America not only dropped its pawn like a hot potato, but supported Britain in the war. Mislead by Reagan, and by their own political naivete, Argentine leaders believed themselves wholeheartedly supported by the United States, an assumption which proved wholeheartedly wrong...