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Haig's announcement may have been intended in part to move the Argentines into resuming negotiations. In any case, the U.S. actions had an immediate effect. Within minutes after the Secretary of State finished making his statement in Washington Friday morning, Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez appeared at the United Nations to declare that his country "is always willing" to comply with an April 3 U.N. Security Council resolution calling for cessation of hostilities between Britain and Argentina, for Argentine
Costa Méndez's remarks may have been a bid for one last peace-keeping effort, possibly under the aegis of the U.N. and its Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuellar. Even though British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had earlier ruled out the possibility of any U.N.-sponsored peace effort, British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym announced in London that he would be returning to the U.S., first to consult with Secretary of State Haig and then to visit the U.N. in Manhattan. But Pym also had tough words for Costa Méndez...
...Argentine troops. There were unconfirmed reports that British commando units were already ashore in the archipelago, gathering intelligence and possibly preparing for a full-scale British invasion. The Argentine occupying force on the islands, according to Argentina's military governor of the Falklands, General Mario Benjamin Menéndez, was in a state of "total alert," expecting an assault that could come, in Menéndez's words, "at any minute." The innocent bystanders of the Falklands dispute, the 1,800 English-speaking residents of the islands, had mostly evacuated to the countryside or taken the opportunity...
...began. Soviet spy ships had dogged the British armada as it made its slow way down the South Atlantic to the Falklands. In private conversations with Secretary of State Haig, Argentina's Costa Méndez had warned that his country might turn to the Soviet Union for military assistance in the event of a British attack. Haig was unfazed by the threat, but the very mention of possible Soviet involvement added yet another level of possible trouble that might arise from the situation...
...most of the U.S., they would be something of a rarity these days-three generations under one roof. They share a modest, four-bedroom house in Westchester, a mostly Cuban town in the western part of Dade County: Carlos Marquez Sterling, 83, and his wife Waldina Hernández Cata, 66; Daughter Uva, 37, and her husband Jorge J. Clavijo, 45; and their two children, Uvi, 17, and Christina, 12. As has been true of other Cuban families with several generations living in South Florida, some members of the Marquez Sterling dynasty have found adjusting to the American...