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...come to pass. Highly regarded Argentina, which is the defending champion by virtue of beating The Netherlands in the 1978 final on its home ground in Buenos Aires, had decided to come despite the Falklands war. Great Britain's three doughty qualifiers-England, Scotland and Northern Ireland-had appeared after similar rumbles to the contrary. The Basque terrorist organization, ETA, although promising its own fans the usual number of bombings and kidnapings for an event of this magnitude, in fact had only managed to frighten the residents of Bilbao with a few misplaced charges...
...upsets. This year, for the first time, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), soccer's Swiss-based, iron-fisted ruling organization, expanded the number of qualifying first-round teams from 16 to 24. The soccer heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would bore the fans. New Zealand and Honduras would increase the probability that stars like Argentina's sensational Diego Maradona, Brazil's Zico and Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge would suffer injuries...
President, Baptist Union of Ireland...
While all these words were being lofted, the existing "little wars" of the world?the ones in Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, Namibia, Chad, Ethiopia-Somalia, Guatemala and El Salvador?were joined by two more. The coincidence is noteworthy. After the invasion of Lebanon, an editorial in the New York Times declared: "There is no point wailing about what might have been." Possibly. But that palliative countermands all the earlier sage advice proffered by that selfsame publication, and by this one and by every other voice that lobs words against tanks. The P.L.O. could have forsworn terrorism with words...
Netherlands and Ireland. Indeed, the U.N. forces could have hindered the Israelis by blocking highways, as a few units...