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Despite the losses they had sustained, both countries and their leaders seemed as grimly committed as ever to their antagonistic objectives: Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to making some 10,000 Argentine troops leave the Falklands; Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, to winning acknowledgment of his country's sovereignty over the islands, which Argentines call the Malvinas (after the 18th century colonists who settled there from the French village of St. Malo). The British task was by far the harder one, yet Foreign Secretary Francis Pym sounded as firm as ever when he declared that "we shall...
Argentina was fully aware of the British handicap and, if anything, seemed to be taking an even tougher line, both militarily and diplomatically. As one senior Argentine Cabinet minister and confidant of President Galtieri's told TIME last week, "We are not trying to strut like roosters, but I am less worried today than when the British fleet sailed. The loss of so many lives has made negotiations more difficult. Above all, the Argentine people will not let us take one step backward. The Argentines are winning...
...country, problems with the working classes. After the invasion, all the other problems went back behind the curtain, a long way away." Not surprisingly, government officials have been delighted by the groundswell of popular support. "They are absolutely euphoric," said a senior aide in the office of President Leopoldo Galtieri. "Everyone's dancing in the hallways. It's like a party...
Some of the anti-Soviet hard-liners within the Administration fear that the rupture of relations with Argentina may drive it into an alignment with Moscow. But most experts consider this unlikely, even if the regime of General Leopoldo Galtieri is overthrown. Capitalist and predominantly Roman Catholic, Argentina is not a likely place for a Marxist revolution, especially after years of violent government repression of leftists. Any regime that replaces Galtieri will almost certainly also be controlled by the anti-Communist military...
After his first phone call April 1 to President Leopoldo Galtieri, Reagan was perplexed by the Argentine's determination to put troops on the Falklands. Reagan found Galtieri's argument about lingering colonialism unconvincing. Nor could the President accept the British obsession with self-determination for the 1,800 residents of the islands. Reagan was tutored, at his request, on the deeper motivations and the historic perspectives of the two nations...