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...there. The military campaign was a success, but all the world looked with dismay at the thunder of Israeli bombs on Beirut's civilians and at the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps. It was a year in which Argentina tested the decline of European power by seizing the Falkland Islands, only to see Britain, led by doughty Margaret Thatcher, meet the test by taking them back again...
...April 2 that Argentine troops invaded the Falkland Islands, a remote and irrelevant British colony 400 miles off the Argentine coast. The House of Commons reverberated with cries of "Resign!" Thatcher boldly dispatched a task force, which grew to more than 100 vessels, to the windswept South Atlantic. It was a 19th century show of force against "a tinpot dictator," as the British haughtily described Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri...
Latin Americans felt betrayed last spring when the U.S. eventually supported Britain in its war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Last week's trip was at least obliquely an attempt to erase lingering resentment. All four countries Reagan visited are fiscally wobbly, Brazil most prominently. There Reagan reassured Figueiredo that the U.S. is not about to let Brazil's precarious economy, the world's tenth largest, collapse. Reagan also went south to reaffirm his Administration's antagonism toward the hemisphere's first Marxist regime (Fidel Castro's Cuba) and the latest (Sandinist Nicaragua...
...voting against Britain on the U.N. resolution concerning the Falkland Islands [Nov. 15], the U.S. has turned its back on its closest ally. We have done this in the hope of gaining friends in one of the most unstable areas of the world. The success we will achieve in Latin America with this vote is temporary; the support of the British will be lasting...
...unbelievable that you should call America's vote against Britain on the Falkland Islands dispute embarrassing. In the past decade our allies have voiced opposition to many U.S. proposals. Britain was one of the first to object to the U.S. embargo on pipeline equipment to the Soviet Union. It is time the U.S. voted for its self-interest...