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...Buenos Aires, Haig found the Argentines in a state of high excitement. His limousine moved slowly past upwards of 150,000 flag-waving onlookers as he drove to the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada, to see President Galtieri. The Argentine leader subsequently told a cheering crowd: "If the British want to come, let them come. We will take them on." He added that Argentina would "inflict punishment" on anyone who "dares to touch one meter of Argentine territory." But the discussions between Haig and the Argentines continued until late that evening. It was after midnight when Haig announced unexpectedly that...
...that the Argentines had been planning the operation in strict secrecy for two months.) With the information came a British request for U.S. intercession to prevent the crisis. Secretary of State Haig immediately called in Argentine Ambassador to Washington Esteban Arpad Takacs and sent messages to Argentina's President Galtieri through the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Harry Schlaudemann. When those advances were rejected, President Reagan was asked to intervene...
Reagan responded as soon as U.S. diplomats could provide him with proposals to discuss with General Galtieri. Less than a day after the British report, Reagan phoned the Argentine President. Speaking through translators, the two men talked for 50 minutes. Galtieri took up much of the time by giving Reagan a laborious lesson on the history of the Falkland Islands. Reagan offered to send a personal envoy of Galtieri's choice, including Vice President George Bush, to help prevent the invasion. The offer was rebuffed. What Reagan did not know was that even as he spoke to Galtieri, Argentine naval...
President Reagan's early failure to prevent the invasion left White House aides reluctant to have further direct presidential involvement in the crisis. There was considerable concern that Reagan's image had been damaged when word was released that he had talked for as long as 50 minutes with Galtieri without having any effect...
...Rials disputes the institution's negative reputation and denies that the school - which has trained more than 60,000 soldiers in the last 59 years, the last 22 after relocating from Panama to Georgia - can be linked to any crime. "When [Argentine junta leader] Galtieri was here in 1949, he took an engineering course," Rials says. "Did that have anything to do with him being a junta leader?" Nevertheless, a photograph of Galtieri, along with that of Bolivian dictator Hugo Banzer, hangs on one of the school's walls recognizing distinguished students...