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...been ideal for the Reagan Administration. All of Washington's efforts against Nicaragua--from verbal reprimands to rumored invasions--have resulted in continued embarrassment for the State Department. And then Argentina--the nation the Administration has grown closest to in Latin America--launched an unprovoked invasion of Britain's Falkland Islands. Events, hope may have led us to believe, would succeed where liberal intellectuals, Democratic politicians and the the New York Times had failed. But Reagan and Company have managed to ignore reality as completely as they ignore criticism. In spite of everything, he Administration obviously still sees Latin America...
EVENTS IN ARGENTINA, too, seemed destined to shake the Administration from its simplistic vision of Latin America. The Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the U.S. vote for a U.N. resolution condemning Argentina's actions indicated that Washington might revise its rose-colored view of Leopolde Galtieri's military dictatorship. Argentina is the exemplar of the Administration's "totalitarian" but not "authoritarian" nation. Though Galtieri's junta never won popular support through open elections, though the government is notorious for its brutal treatment of guiltless political prisoners, and despite the regime's denial of free speech, free press...
...does this comfortable status shape Argentina's own foreign policy? The Falkland invasion offers some partial answers. Apparently, along with the shadowy forces of the communist monolith, the British presence in the South Atlantic--a menacing 1800 inhabitants of a string of islands not worth the attention of even most trivia buffs--presents a dangerous threat to Argentina' influence in the Southern Hemisphere, a perfect opportunity for muscle flexing. Pretending to be victims of imperialism, the Argentine government ordered a reckless violation of international law, insulting Britain and all her allies. Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez managed somehow...
Obliterate, a game in which a submarine and a battleship match tactics at sea, had already been available for many months. When the Falkland Islands crisis began to heat up, Mercury 332 assigned specific nationalities to the warships "to make the game more topical...
That pace led some observers of the diplomatic community to wonder if the Secretary's health and judgment in the crucial Falkland Islands negotiations could withstand the stress of such globe-hopping. The London press thought not. Noting Haig's drawn, tired features after one meeting, the Daily Mirror trumpeted, HOW MUCH MORE CAN HAIG'S HEART STAND? Haig's heart is not the only questionable factor. Virtually all of the thousands of the body's neural, hormonal and metabolic processes are also taxed in global jet travel...