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...current Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has served as high Commissioner of Australia, First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, Chairman of the Conservative Party, and Foreign Secretary. He resigned the last position days after Argentina's 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands as a matter of honor--because, he said, he had not foreseen the crisis, and because, others said, someone...
...main speaker at Commencement this year,Lord Carrington, 66, the NATO secretary general,has served as Britain's high commissioner ofAustralia, first lord of the admiralty, secretaryof defense, secretary of energy, and chairman ofthe conservative party. He resigned from asforeign secretary after the Falkland Islandsincident...
Thatcher had other reasons too for assisting the Reagan Administration. She reminded M.P.s of the vital American military assistance in recapturing the Falkland Islands from Argentina four years ago: "We received splendid support from the U.S., far beyond the call of duty." Added one Whitehall official: "We owed Washington...
...when he dreamed of the future. Nor does Mortimer seem especially enamored of what his country threatens to become. But Paradise Postponed is a remarkably judicious presentation of pros and cons, and extremely funny besides. Near the end of his life, watching TV reports of the war for the Falkland Islands, Simeon complains to his wife: "What we're doing is going round in circles. I mean, is this where we came in?" To enter this novel is to join an eddy of wisdom and comic resignation...
...President, were found guilty of lesser charges, deprived of military rank and given sentences ranging from 4 1/2 to 17 years. The remaining four officers--among them General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who as President from 1981 to 1982 initiated the ill-fated war with Britain over the Falkland Islands--were acquitted...