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Thatcher was under far less pressure in Britain to search for a solution that would restore permanent peace to the South Atlantic. Opposition Leader Michael Foot renewed his standing plea that the government try once again to reach a negotiated settlement through the U.N. The most passionate argument against continued fighting came from Labor M.P. Leo Abse, who asked in Commons that Thatcher "stop playing at being a warrior queen...
...their Chinese companions, meanwhile, were quietly warned not to attend. In another school, an American student invited to dinner at the home of a Chinese classmate was asked to "come rather late and wear dark clothing so nobody will notice that a foreigner is coming to our house." The plea was understandable since Chinese who openly consort with foreigners know they will be visited soon afterward by Public Security agents demanding to know what the conversations were about...
...offered up by Lewis as a partial defense of the College's current practice, is absurd on its face. An investigative body must operate on the assumption that it has the power to get its suspects to tell the truth. To act otherwise is to make every case a plea bargain, in which Harvard makes a major concession at the start of a case, merely in return for the professor's decision to tell the truth. The College should act with the assumption that its faculty members are at the minimum, truthful, and that their lies can be detected...
...tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory." Summing up the U.S. dilemma, Haig asked his fellow O.A.S. delegates: "Is there a country among us that has not counted itself a friend of both [Britain and Argentina]?" Overriding a plea by Haig, the O.A.S. the next day approved, by a vote of 17 to 0, an Argentine-sponsored resolution condemning Britain's "unjustified and disproportionate armed attacks" and asking the U.S. to lift the economic and military sanctions that it had imposed against Buenos Aires last month...
Later that day, during an address to the Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales, John Paul made a moving plea for peace, saying that he was in close union with the bishops of both Britain and Argentina. Said he: "Together, my brother bishops, we must proclaim that peace is possible...