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...rallied to support Argentina, miscasting it as a victim of colonialist subjugation. "The tilt toward Britain will destroy the coalition we must have if we are to prevent a Communist takeover of Central America," said North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, the lone opponent of a Senate resolution endorsing a pro-British policy...
Washington's pro-British tilt, which it had little choice about adopting in the end, severely damaged what was a blossoming, albeit controversial, relationship with Argentina. The junta in Buenos Aires, shunned by the Carter Administration because of indefensible human rights violations, was courted by Reagan as a strategic ally in the anti-Communist crusade. Last year Administration officials proposed the resumption of arms sales to Argentina, which, like the U.S., is supporting the military campaign of El Salvador's government against leftist guerrillas. Some Latin American experts regarded this friendly abrazo as naive and misguided. Argued Johns...
Pressure was growing in the U.S. Congress for the Reagan Administration to side more openly with Britain. The Senate voted 79 to 1 in favor of a pro-British resolution that called on the U.S. Government to "use all appropriate means to assist the British government." Haig, meanwhile, cabled his settlement proposals directly to the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina for transmission to that country's junta. Two days later the answer came back via Argentine Ambassador to Washington Estaban Takács: No. With that, the U.S. moved to back the British...
Fearful that Haig's mission might be compromised, U.S. officials sought to play down the significance of the pro-British tilt. As close NATO allies, one U.S. analyst pointed out, the two countries' intelligence services are "interlocking at almost every level." Moreover, the facilities at Ascension Island are leased from Britain under terms that require the U.S. to make them available on request...
During World War II, Captain Sadat collaborated with the Germans in several anti-British plots, which landed him in jail in 1942. Arrested again two years later in connection with the assassination of a pro-British Egyptian aristocrat, Sadat remained in prison until his trial and acquittal in 1948. Shortly after his release, he divorced his first wife and married Jehan Raouf, a beautiful Anglo-Egyptian girl who eventually gave him four children (he had three by his first marriage...