Word: galtieri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thatcher exults, Galtieri falls and Reagan faces Latin anger...
News of Argentina's aerial successes lifted the gray mood that had enveloped Buenos Aires when a humiliating defeat at Port Stanley had seemed inevitable. Blared a headline in the daily newspaper Convictión: LONDON ADMITS GETTING A BEATING. Under the eyes of a beaming President Galtieri, thousands of chanting, banner-waving Argentines gathered in the central Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to celebrate Malvinas Day, the anniversary of the appointment of the first Argentine governor of the contested islands known in Spanish as Las Malvinas. As Galtieri waved his hat in salute, the crowd chanted...
...London and Paris, Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Francis Pym, rejected such a compromise as "totally unacceptable." Argentina's continued military resistance, they said, ruled out any involvement in the Falklands' administration in the foreseeable future. The British warned that their position would further harden if President Galtieri carried out his threat to continue the battle from the Argentine mainland after a British military victory...
...John Paul finally stepped from the Alitalia DC-10 jetliner Galileo Galilei last Friday at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport and kissed the ground of Argentina, he faced a delicate diplomatic task. There to greet him, amid a thick crowd of government and church dignitaries, was President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, uniformed but hatless, reverently kneeling to kiss the Pontiffs ring. Later, while the Pope spoke, Galtieri gallantly held an umbrella over him, but the presence of the man who had ordered the invasion of the Falklands did not deter John Paul from hammering yet again at the message of peace...
...time-and no maneuvering room-for the diplomatic niceties that helped to give his British trip a less political flavor. While he could and did avoid a visit with Prime Minister Thatcher, who serves as head of government only, he could not make the same distinction with Galtieri, who is both head of state and head of government...