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Perhaps. But there were other signs last week that the authority of Bignone's government was rapidly eroding. After an appearance before the three-member commission investigating the conduct of the Falklands war, former President Leopoldo Galtieri was accosted by angry hecklers. Shrieked the mother of a soldier who disappeared in the Falklands: "Scoundrel! You'll pay for it!" Shouted another angry bystander: "May God judge you!" Some 10,000 demonstrators marched peacefully amid cries of "Military traitors to the wall!" and ritual burnings of American and British flags...
After the British announced they were withdrawing their only naval vessel in the area, General Galtieri, increasingly aware of the tenuous position he held within his own country, decided it would be a propitious time to invade...
...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...
...General Galtieri faded from the political landscape shortly after Argentinian troops began to disappear from the Falkland Islands. The military still retain control of the country, but Galtieri's successor, General Reynaldo Bignone, has been operating from a very different position from that of his predecessor. The defeat in the Falklands reinforced the hostile civilian attitude toward the military government that was prevalent before the war and Bignone has been feeling very serious pressure, both politically and economically. During the past year, inflation in Argentina hovered at 210 percent while the country suffered a severe recession...
...position during the war: she then returned home to have her conduct further justified by the report of the Franl's Commission on the Falklands Crisis. The Commission exonerated her Government and her Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and essentially avoided pointing the finger at anyone other than Leopoldo Galtieri. Britain's economic problems still dog the Prime Minister's heels, but she retains a 10-percent edge in recent polls over both the Labour Party and the Social Democrats, and the glory she gained during the war shows no real signs of diminution...