Word: falklander
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...large part, Thatcher owes the size of the verdict to her handling of a colonial conflict on a sprinkle of islands 8,000 miles from home. Only a few months before the Argentines took the Falkland Islands in April of last year, the Prime Minister's approval rating in the polls stood at 25%, the lowest of any British leader since World War II. Once war broke out, her unflinching determination to bring victory back from the South Atlantic stamped Thatcher permanently in the public mind as the bold, decisive leader she had always wanted...
...Venezuela in that regard? I can't select another head of state's friends any more than I can select another head of state. We have good relations with Israel, which has close ties to England; but should I let Argentina's differences with England over the Malvinas [The Falkland Islands] affect our relations with Israel? You have to respect certain aspects of another nation's sovereignty...
Before its 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands, Argentina shipped corned beef, lumber and other goods worth more than $133 million annually to the United Kingdom. But since the war, a British embargo on Argentine imports has outlawed trade between the nations. Last week, as he embarked on a three-day visit to Brazil, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the House of Commons that Britain had decided unilaterally to lift the trade embargo. Howe, whose announcement coincided with the anniversary of last year's unsuccessful efforts to renew relations with Argentina, urged the government of President Raśl...
...from this aggressive, even strident, Prime Minister, who boasted, "I am not a consensus politician, I am a conviction politician!" Her conservative creed transformed Britain: she broke the unions' stranglehold, flogged the business world out of complacency, altered the welfare-state mentality and boldly fought a war over the Falkland Islands, some 8,000 miles away. And she did it all her way. --By Bonnie Angelo, London bureau chief from...
...DIED. LEOPOLDO GALTIERI, 76, former Argentine military dictator who in 1982 ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands, and who was implicated in Argentina's own "dirty war" against left-wing subversion; in Buenos Aires. Galtieri was imprisoned in 1986 for his "incompetence" during the Falklands war, and before his death was under house arrest. About 15,000 dissidents perished during the eight-year "dirty war," according to human-rights groups. Galtieri once said he had "no regrets...