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...Buenos Aires, the military junta led by President Leopoldo Galtieri defiantly portrayed Argentina as the ultimate win ner of the conflict despite the precarious position of the embattled garrison at Port Stanley. Declared Galtieri: "We will fight for weeks, months or years, but we will never give up sovereignty over the is lands." He seemed to be warning that even if his soldiers were eventually driven off the Falklands, he would wage a long-term war of attrition against the British...
Washington policymakers feared that by inflicting a humiliating military defeat on its foe, Britain might wreck any chance of a broad, long-term settlement that would have to involve Argentina. Such a defeat, the U.S. believes, could also precipitate the downfall of Argentina's ruling junta, leading to political chaos and revolving-door governments that might be even more prone to renew attacks on the islands. In addition, protracted hostilities would put an enormous drain on Britain's resources and on NATO, which would be deprived of British ships and troops...
Loss of faith in that national dream could threaten the ruling junta, which had rallied unprecedented public support in the wake of Argentina's April 2 invasion of the Falklands. But there were some signs last week that the junta may be looking ahead to a time when it might have to loosen its control on the government to stay in power. Brigadier General Basilio Lami Dozo, the commander of the air force and one of the three members of the junta, spoke vaguely of the need for the "participation by all sectors" in the government in the future...
...Administration's premier expert on Latin America. Conservative and staunchly antiCommunist, she repaired the U.S.'s ties with Buenos Aires last year and fervently hoped to build a strategic barricade against leftist infiltration in the Western Hemisphere by forging closer links with authoritarian regimes like the military junta in Argentina. Though Haig shares Kirkpatrick's fears about Communist advances in Latin America, he is a political pragmatist who is generally more flexible on foreign policy issues. Having been Supreme Commander of NATO from 1974 to 1979, he tends to be more sympathetic to European interests...
...Britain, the country the Pope had just passed through. Moreover, Argentina is a Catholic nation that has, by all accounts, flagrantly violated John Paul's teachings on human rights, a frequent topic that he saw no need to emphasize in democratic Britain. In his expected private meeting with junta leaders, and in all public actions, he must be careful not to offend Argentina, or weaken his new bonds with Britain, or ignore the diplomatic sensitivities of neighboring Chile. That country, which is also heavily Catholic, has its own border dispute with Argentina over ownership of the Beagle Channel islands...