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There were other sources of tension at the summit. The British were furious at the U.S. for trying to switch its vote on a United Nations resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Falkland Islands from veto to abstention. At a Friday morning photo session, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stood stony-faced beside a smiling Reagan, who could not answer reporters' questions as to what had happened. Said one White House aide: "The boss wasn't in on this one. Maybe he should have been. Maybe that was the trouble." Then on Sunday came word...
...well as ideological opposites. But they respect each other as politicians who scored almost simultaneous electoral triumphs, even though as late as 1980 both were widely regarded as has-beens. In addition, they have found common ground on some foreign policy issues. Both fear that if Britain presses the Falkland Islands war with Argentina to a total military victory, relations between Latin America and the Western allies could be poisoned for years. But Reagan apparently refrained from urging that view on Thatcher last week...
...last the end was in sight. From his secure position on Mount Kent, Major General John Jeremy Moore, commander of the British ground forces on the Falkland Islands, gazed through his binoculars at the blue-and-white Argentine flag fluttering over the capital, Port Stanley, twelve miles away. "We'll hoist the Union Jack down there just as soon as we can get there," he told his men confidently. "And believe me, it won't take long...
...demand an Argentine withdrawal within a fixed time limit. Reluctantly supporting the British position, Kirkpatrick also vetoed the resolution. But when her turn to speak came, she had conciliatory words for Argentina. Kirkpatrick expressed the hope that "cooperation will be restored and friendship mended," and pointedly referred to the Falkland Islands by their Argentine name, the Malvinas. Then came the surprise of the evening. "I am told that it is impossible for a government to change a vote once it is cast," Kirkpatrick said. "But I have been requested by my Government to record the fact that, were it possible...
...mother's relatives in Jackson, and then go to Europe until Oxford begins in October. One disappointment, though, is that he and the other Rhodes Scholars will not be able to sail overseas on the Queen Elizabeth II, as is traditional, because the ship is being used in the Falkland Islands war. "I was very upset about that," he says, "It's very unfortunate...