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When the resolution came to a vote, it was rejected by Parsons on the grounds that it did not explicitly demand an Argentine withdrawal within a fixed time limit. Reluctantly supporting the British position, Kirkpatrick also vetoed the resolution. But when her turn to speak came, she had conciliatory words for Argentina. Kirkpatrick expressed the hope that "cooperation will be restored and friendship mended," and pointedly referred to the Falkland Islands by their Argentine name, the Malvinas. Then came the surprise of the evening. "I am told that it is impossible for a government to change a vote once...
...Kirkpatrick told reporters that she had voted on the basis of previous instructions, but had then been asked to change the vote by a telephone call from what she called the "principal officers," an allusion to Reagan and Haig. Asked if she had been embarrassed by the about-face, Kirkpatrick replied: "Of course...
...State Walter Stoessel recommending that the decision be reconsidered in light of changes made in an attempt to strengthen the link between a cease-fire and an Argentine withdrawal. Haig concurred. He discussed the changes with British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym and then telephoned instructions to Stoessel to tell Kirkpatrick to abstain from the vote. Finding that he was too late, Haig asked that Kirkpatrick issue her recantation. Later, Haig blamed the confusion on communications problems. It was, said he, like placing a "buy with a distant broker and finding out that the price has changed." Trying to make...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick long feuded over the basic question of whether and when to side with the British in the Falklands dispute. The quarrel not only is a personality clash between two stubborn, prideful antagonists, but it reflects deep ideological splits within the Administration...
...Kirkpatrick, who wrote her Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University on Argentina during the Peron years, considers herself the 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...