Word: galtieri
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...been slightly over a year since General Leopoldo Galtieri, in an attempt to reassert a long-standing claim of Argentine sovereignty and to revive his flagging political fortunes, ordered an invasion of the Falkland Islands. Galtieri managed to turn angry demonstrations over a disintegrating economy and the unexplained disappearance of some 6000 Argentine citizens into adulatory displays of patriotism in a matter of days. It was a clever sleight-of-hand that succeeded, temporarily at least, in diverting the country's attention from the economic and political horror that had engulfed it since the military seized power from Isabel Peron...
...General Galtieri's deservedly abyssmal reputation and the clearly aggressive nature of the Argentine action made the casting of the villain in the Falklands war a fairly easy task for the casual Western observer; the sight of the British fleet steaming away from Portsmouth Harbor to the defense of this last vestige of the Empire made choosing the hero similarly uncomplicated. Behind this simplistic facade, however, lay a hundred years of British foot-dragging and neglect, and a tangled web of alliances and implications that involved North America as well as Europe and which will continue to reverberate through...
...coast. The House of Commons reverberated with cries of "Resign!" Thatcher boldly dispatched a task force, which grew to more than 100 vessels, to the windswept South Atlantic. It was a 19th century show of force against "a tinpot dictator," as the British haughtily described Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri...
...cautiously. A newly published British government publication, however, more brightly quotes the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that "the area could provide more than nine times the oil believed to lie under Britain's North Sea, making it the largest untapped resource in the world." Boasts Hunt: "Out of Galtieri's folly, there can be a better and brighter future for the islanders. They should be able to cash in on the name that the Falklands...
Whether the precariously isolated army could hang on to power that long was another question. The situation, in the words of a Latin American expert in Washington, was "extremely unstable." President-designate Bignone was not linked with Galtieri's government. A former infantry commander who oversaw Argentina's top military academies in 1980 and 1981, Bignone was shunted aside when Galtieri seized power last December. Bignone is touted as a dialoguista, meaning that he favors the opening of discussions with Argentina's 14 suspended political parties. But behind the new President stood Major General Nicolaides...