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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...
...plan, says a top British official, is predicated "on total surrender of the Argentine forces on the Falklands." After a British triumph, reports TIME Correspondent Frank Melville, the captured Argentine troops would not immediately be repatriated to their homeland. They would be held as prisoners of war until the junta agreed in writing to a formal ceasefire, one that included air and naval units as well as ground forces. If necessary, Britain would move the Argentine prisoners to the United Kingdom until its demands were met. If the junta launched another invasion of the islands, or even continued air strikes...
...adamant is Thatcher toward the junta that she would not agree to any face-to-face talks, private or public, by any British official with the Argentine government. Britain would hope to use as intermediaries either Secretary of State Haig or U.N. Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar. Their first job would be to convince the Argentines that they are in a no-win position with a Britain, says a top government official, that has both the "resources and will power to stick it out indefinitely in the Falklands." In the negotiations, the British would brush aside the Argentine...
...Buenos Aires, the public mood throughout the invasion week was restrained and somber. On National Day, the ruling junta decreed that an atmosphere of "austerity and solemnity" should honor the occasion. Argentines were buoyed but not ecstatic at the news that John Paul II would visit the country, something that Argentina has greatly desired for years. Headlines in the local press claimed extravagant victories (THE ENGLISH HAVE SUFFERED 200 DEAD AND 800 WOUNDED), but few citizens could ignore their government's reluctant admission that 1) the British had established a beachhead on the Falklands and 2) the foothold was rapidly...