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...renamed Puerto de la Soledad. The British, expelled by Spanish troops in 1770 from Port Egmont, talked fiercely of war. Or at least some London politicians did; the government tried to calm the public belligerence by hiring London's most talented polemicist, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson obliged with a pamphlet calling the Falklands "an island which not even the southern savages have dignified with habitation." It was a place fit only for smugglers and buccaneers, he wrote, and any British garrison sent there would "contemplate with envy the exiles of Siberia...
...best argument for a freeze is simply the acceleration of the arms race itself Attitudes are hardening on both sides. The American Administration refused to even consider modifying its plans to build thousand of new nuclear weapons during the next decade And, in a recent official pamphlet. Marshall Nikolai V. Orgakov, the highest-ranking officer in the Soviet military, vowed that the Soviets will keep pace with the United States no matter what the cost...
...himself. The document blasts the "revisionist" reform policies adopted after August 1980, when the Solidarity labor movement was launched, and calls socialist. a drastic purge of party moderates. While it cautions against a prompt easing of martial law restrictions or the release of some 4,000 political prisoners, the pamphlet criticizes the military regime for usurping the party's leadership role...
...with a huge lead in the polls over both King and Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III, "we know better in 1982," the pamphlet concludes...
...assertion is followed by the claim that the U.S. wants to "evade destructive retaliation" by fighting a "limited nuclear war in Europe." Soviet military capabilities, on the other hand, are described as "of a strictly defensive nature." No one who knows the true military statistics will take the Soviet pamphlet seriously, but that is beside the point. The purpose is to deceive the unknowing. And for that, concedes one Western diplomat in Moscow, Whence the Threat to Peace is "a damned good piece of propaganda...