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...Argentines were sickened by the regime's crackdown on leftist guerrillas in the late '70s, the so-called dirty war, in which at least 6,000 people disappeared. The final blunder, however, was Argentina's ill-fated 1982 seizure and subsequent loss of the British-held Falkland Islands. In February the military junta of President Reynaldo Bignone announced plans to return the government to civilian hands...
...future of the Reagan peace plan, which would link the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. Why don't the Americans support self-determination for the Palestinians? Last year they backed self-determination for 2,000 people on the Falkland Islands. So why do they refuse the same principle for 5 million Palestinians...
...Falkland's. The Falklands have a strategic importance. How often have I tried to tell our friends and allies this. The Falklands have been important in British history since 1770, when we were forced off. The battle of the Falklands in the first World War was for the command of those straits; if we had not won that, we would not have won the war. It is British sovereign territory. The Falklanders wish to be British subjects. I simply do not understand what is wrong with that. I would have thought it was of immense help to our American...
...Minister is increasingly confident, almost cocky. She dominates the morning press conference at Conservative Party headquarters; twice during the campaign she has publicly squelched Francis Pym, her Foreign Secretary. Pym's first misstep was to declare on television that he was willing to discuss the future of the Falkland Islands if Argentina drops its belligerence. Thatcher immediately interrupted him with the stern correction, "but not sovereignty, not sovereignty." Pym's second mistake was to note, again on TV, that "landslides on the whole do not produce successful governments." Snapped Thatcher: "I think I can handle a landslide...
...have been in power, Argentina's military leaders have shown a continuing knack for selfdelusion. In the "dirty war" against leftist guerrillas in the 1970s, they unleashed a domestic counterterror of their own, confident that the excesses would never have to be explained. Last year they invaded the Falkland Islands, tragically underestimating the British will to resist and the U.S. reluctance to abandon an ally. Now, with the Falklands debacle behind it and elections for a return to civilian rule scheduled for October, the military's latest attempt to justify itself has once again run afoul of reality...