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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...
...alarming corollary of anti-U.S. feeling is a possible swing by Argentina to the Soviet bloc for future aid, as absurd as that seems for a staunchly anti-Communist regime. After a 30-minute meeting with President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri last week, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Striganov expressed Moscow's "sympathy with the Argentine people's hard fight against British imperialism." Galtieri later said that he would accept "any hand that is offered" to aid his country. It was unclear just what the Soviets, who bought 75% of Argentina's grain exports last year, were prepared...
...skies and warm ecumenical dispositions, the pretrip jitters about security and the ticklish wartime atmosphere quickly subsided. Britons took no perceptible offense at the Pope's plan to fly to Argentina this Friday, though perhaps he should anticipate some British grumbling when he shakes the hand of General Leopoldo Galtieri, with whom he is expected to meet. A session with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had been canceled to point up the nonpolitical nature of the Pope's British tour...
...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...
After his first phone call April 1 to President Leopoldo Galtieri, Reagan was perplexed by the Argentine's determination to put troops on the Falklands. Reagan found Galtieri's argument about lingering colonialism unconvincing. Nor could the President accept the British obsession with self-determination for the 1,800 residents of the islands. Reagan was tutored, at his request, on the deeper motivations and the historic perspectives of the two nations...