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...Buenos Aires, the government of Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri was slow to admit the recapture of Darwin or the general thrust of the British advance. Instead, the junta announced that a raid by British troops in helicopters had been repelled at Darwin, near Goose Green, the second largest settlement in the sparsely populated Falklands, and that a Harrier had been shot down at Port Stanley. Insisted Brigadier General Basilic Lami Dozo, commander of the Argentine air force: "The battle is going well for us. We have our capacity intact...
...military government of President Galtieri, 55, showed no more signs of bending than the British. On May 25, Galtieri and his fellow junta members, Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya, 55, and Brigadier General Lami Dozo, 53, took part in a Mass and Te Deum in Buenos Aires' Metropolitan Cathedral that celebrated the 172nd anniversary of Argentina's equivalent of the Declaration of Independence. Said Galtieri afterward: "At this time of patriotism, the sons of our land from the army, navy and air force will be singing the national anthem, even in their trenches." Galtieri publicly rebuffed a conciliatory letter from President...
...Cabinet. The ambassador returned to New York early last week bearing Britain's "final" bargaining position, which Pérez de Cuéllar passed on directly to Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Ros. Late the following evening the Argentines came to the U.N. tower with Galtieri's response to the British ultimatum. Near midnight, Sir Anthony made his now familiar trek to the 38th-floor suite, where Pérez de Cuéllar translated the Argentines' Spanish-language text for him. The text and an official U.N. translation were sent to the British mission the next...
...world did not even strike them as probable." According to this official, the Argentine leaders never expected the British to send a task force so far or to fight for such principles as self-determination and nonuse of force. Once the reality of British determination dawned on them, Galtieri and the other-ranking officers apparently decided that a fight to the finish-even a surrender-would be more honorable and politically safer for the junta than a humiliating compromise...
...moment at least, disappeared. In one emotional scene last week, thousands of Argentines turned out to welcome 189 soldiers and civilians who finally returned home after their capture by the British on April 25 on remote South Georgia Island. There seemed no reason to doubt the resolve of President Galtieri, who warned once again last week that if the drawn-out Falklands battle turned into a broader war, "we will be forced to reply with every means at our disposal." -By George Russell. Reported by Bonnie Angela/London and Barry Hillenbrand/Buenos Aires