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...powered vessel discharged its human cargo, the last of some 11,000 prisoners taken by Britain in the Falkland Islands war, on a windswept dock in out-of-the-way Puerto Madryn, 650 miles south of Buenos Aires. One of the first down the gangplank was General Mario Benjamin Menendez, army commander in the Falklands, who saddened many of his countrymen when he surrendered to Britain's Major General John Jeremy Moore. Military authorities refused to allow the returning soldiers to be interviewed or photographed, but Menendez did offer a few words to a local journalist who approached...
...materiel), partly wishful thinking (the hope that Argentina would avert a bloodbath by capitulating), partly humanitarian (to forestall casualties among the civilian residents of Port Stanley). The pause may have served its purpose. British intelligence reportedly overheard an unscrambled conversation last week between Brigadier General Mario Benjamin Menendez, commander of the Argentine troops on the islands, and his superiors on the mainland. Menendez is said to have described the low morale of his troops, adding, "If things go on like this, our situation could crumble rapidly...
...Argentine perimeter-radar posts, ammunition dumps and artillery concentrations-while trying to draw enemy troops out of their prepared positions onto open ground, where they could be surrounded. About 1,000 of the occupying troops in Port Stanley were believed to be elite marines, the best fighters Argentine Commander Menendez had at his disposal. The remainder were relatively untrained conscripts who might prove to be vulnerable to such tactics, although, as one British paratrooper said, "a gun in the hands of a boy can kill you just the same...
...long siege. According to one senior officer, the Malvinas, as the islands are called in Spanish, were so heavily fortified that the British could never retake them. "If they intend to," he said, "it will be a butchery." In the island capital of Port Stanley, General Mario Benjamin Menendez, the newly appointed Argentine governor, was ensconced in the office vacated by Britain's Rex Hunt...
...perhaps Le Monde's world is more circumscribed than is a Pope's global parish. Remarked Archbishop Manuel Menendez, head of Caritas in Argentina: "The other day on a street in Rome a little boy was asked if he loved the Pope and he said yes. He was asked why. 'Because I understand everything he says.'" As Albino Luciani, the Pope-to-be never studied on a campus outside his home area of northeastern Italy, nor did he gain the international sophistication of a Vatican bureaucrat or diplomat. In the town of Belluno, where he taught for several years...