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...Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the U.S. vote for a U.N. resolution condemning Argentina's actions indicated that Washington might revise its rose-colored view of Leopolde Galtieri's military dictatorship. Argentina is the exemplar of the Administration's "totalitarian" but not "authoritarian" nation. Though Galtieri's junta never won popular support through open elections, though the government is notorious for its brutal treatment of guiltless political prisoners, and despite the regime's denial of free speech, free press, and open assembly, Reagan has preserved close ties with Buenos Aires. In exchange for U.S. support, Argentina has declared...
...government ordered a reckless violation of international law, insulting Britain and all her allies. Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez managed somehow to keep a straight face when he carefully explained that his country's claims to the islands are rooted in 150-year-old territorial rights. The military junta professes to believe that Argentina's demand for be islands and the army's right to take them by force are legitimate. To top it off, the Argentine disgust for all things communist quietly disappeared as the prospect of war with Britain grew. Mendez admitted last week that his nation...
...adept at defending Argentine's vicious "road to democracy"--that it finds itself unable to criticize the Falkland takeover. Britain may not be faultless in its reactions to the crisis. But if we had immediately condemned Argentina's actions, and vowed to support Britain at all costs, the military junta might now display a great deal more willingness to return the islands to their previous status and resolve the issues of sovereignty and administration of the Falklands by negotiation, not war fleets. Our neutrality has conferred an aura of legitimacy to Argentina's claim to the islands, and has bolstered...
Argentina's military rulers seemed surprised at Britain's vehemence, and stunned by the nationalistic forces it had unleashed. "The English reaction is so absurd, so disproportionate," lamented Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez. "This seems like a chapter in a science-fiction novel." The junta had miscalculated international opposition to its invasion and grossly underestimated the risk of war. Its seizure of the Falkland Islands nonetheless remained popular at home. Activist Perez Esquivel, who won the Nobel Prize for his human rights crusade against the government, offered his support to the junta last week, as did an organized...
...emergency session of Parliament. As it turned out, there was little debate-and virtually unanimous support for the government's policy. The negotiations, she told a cheering House of Commons, are "complex, changing and difficult, the more so because they are taking place between a military junta and a democratic government of a free people-one which is not prepared to compromise that democracy and that liberty which the British Falkland Islanders regard as their birthright." The British government would continue to listen to plans that might break the deadlock, but it would enforce its blockade of the disputed...