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...than U.S. intelligence reports. (Subsequently, U.S. intelligence officials discovered that the Argentines had been planning the operation in strict secrecy for two months.) With the information came a British request for U.S. intercession to prevent the crisis. Secretary of State Haig immediately called in Argentine Ambassador to Washington Esteban Arpad Takacs and sent messages to Argentina's President Galtieri through the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Harry Schlaudemann. When those advances were rejected, President Reagan was asked to intervene...
...President. Speaking through translators, the two men talked for 50 minutes. Galtieri took up much of the time by giving Reagan a laborious lesson on the history of the Falkland Islands. Reagan offered to send a personal envoy of Galtieri's choice, including Vice President George Bush, to help prevent the invasion. The offer was rebuffed. What Reagan did not know was that even as he spoke to Galtieri, Argentine naval forces had been ordered to move on the Falklands...
President Reagan's early failure to prevent the invasion left White House aides reluctant to have further direct presidential involvement in the crisis. There was considerable concern that Reagan's image had been damaged when word was released that he had talked for as long as 50 minutes with Galtieri without having any effect...
...kind and intelligent former graduate student at NIU—open fire on a lecture hall full of undergraduate students? What could spur anyone to senseless killing? And perhaps most importantly, what could NIU have done—and what can any other university do—to prevent future tragedies like this one? In NIU’s time of mourning and questioning, our thoughts are with the university and the families and friends of those killed or wounded in the massacre. Reassured by the Harvard’s opt-in emergency text-message alert system and the presence...
...President has asked Congress to extend and double the funding of PEPFAR when the five-year program expires in 2008. PEPFAR provides anti-retroviral drugs and other treatment for HIV-positive and AIDS patients in developing countries, while also trying to prevent new infections using the "ABC" approach: abstain, be faithful and use condoms. An earlier controversy over the first tenet of that drive - abstinence, which critics claimed reflected an effort impose a conservative Christian morality amid a humanitarian catastrophe - remains. "Certain constituencies, such as sex workers, are excluded from PEPFAR money," says Ayesha Kajee, program director of the International...