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Having spent several months in Argentina and the Falkland Islands, I have had the opportunity to listen to the views of ordinary Argentines and Falkland Islanders. While the Argentines care passionately about the sovereignty of the Falklands, they don't want to live there. The Kelpers, on the other hand, have been on the islands for more than a century and care passionately about remaining under British rule. Recent British governments have been caught between the two sides. On the one hand they have respected the wishes of the islanders and, at the same time, have valued their traditional...
...waters. Before the week was over, each side had lost a proud warship to these lethal new engines of destruction. For the first time, the military forces of Britain and Argentina had mauled each other on the high seas in the bizarre battle for possession of the remote, inhospitable Falkland Islands. Then, as if stunned by the enormity of their actions, the adversaries momentarily drew apart, offering yet another opportunity for diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the crisis, which had begun with Argentina's invasion of the desolate territory on April...
...Commons, the opposition Labor Party, which after some fretting had taken a posture of bipartisan support for the government's combination of military and diplomatic pressure on Argentina, became restive again. Labor Leader Michael Foot refused a Thatcher offer of briefings on the military progress in the Falklands, and renewed demands that Britain try U.N. mediation of the dispute. Labor's foreign policy spokesman, Denis Healey, warned that "if this military escalation continues, more lives, both Argentine and British, could be lost than there are on the Falkland Islands." Outside the Commons the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie...
Significantly, the Secretary-General's plan made no mention of the issue of ultimate sovereignty. Argentina was insisting that sovereignty is nonnegotiable, and Britain maintained that any settlement must respect the self-determination of the 1,800 Falkland Islanders, who are heavily in favor of remaining British. Pérez de Cuéllar set a midweek target for British and Argentine responses to his ideas, and a closed-door informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council was called the following day to consider the issue...
...aggressively interrupted his questioner, Howard Squadron of the American-Jewish Committee, until Koppel rebuked him. Said Koppel: "I think it'll be most useful to everyone if Mr. Squadron is given an opportunity to make his points, Tom." London-based Anchor Peter Jennings answered a question about the Falkland Islands dispute with a lame joke that the unmentioned "pawns" in the situation were the Falklanders' sheep...