Word: falklander
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...threat of war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands caught the U.S. unawares-"an intelligence failure on our part," as one American official put it-and that uncertainty cast a dark cloud over the President's holiday. Just before leaving Washington on Wednesday, Reagan decided to send Secretary of State Alexander Haig to London and Buenos Aires to see if he could do anything to head off a confrontation...
...Ronald Reagan it is one of those times. The unexpected, like Argentina's seizure of the Falkland Islands, piles on the inevitable, like the winding down of Leonid the power in Moscow, which adds to the unfathomable, like the nagging persistence of high interest rates. The rising clamor against nuclear arms, the threat of Israeli action against Lebanon, the stalemate with Congress over the budget are other complications as we rush into a momentous spring...
...feeling of hope affects other areas of crisis. Foreign policy experts believe that the leadership decline in Moscow may put the Soviets in a holding pattern as they sort out who is going to be in charge. That could be to our advantage. While fearing the volatility of the Falkland crisis, men like Henry Kissinger our a signal to the rest of the world from Britain that there is a "limit to our endurance of defeatism." The Pentagon assessment is that the British can wipe out the Argentine fleet. The diplomatic assessment is that we had better stop every thing...
...Falkland situation, the United States helped pave the way for Argentina's transgression of accepted codes of international law through its kid-gloves treatment of Argentina's repressive regime, the consequence of the Reagan Administration's fundamentally fallacious distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships. Its vision clouded by its bipolar world view, the Administration tailed to show Argentinas just how seriously it takes violations of human rights or its most recent flouting of diplomatic standards...
...nuclear age, when nations may someday have to decide between war and peace in a matter of seconds, the irony suggested by the Falkland crisis is stark. Given two weeks to forestall bloodshed, the world has thus far failed entirely. The United States must now show its commitment to promoting peace and to upholding international law. If it does not, both international law and morality in diplomacy will have suffered a serious setback...