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...Community budget. One of the poorer members, Britain could end up putting about $1.5 billion more into the common coffer this year than it will get back. The Community had offered to compromise by granting Britain a rebate of at least $800 million. But British Foreign Minister Francis Pym brusquely told his colleagues he found "great difficulty" with that proposal...
Whatever the merits of the British case on the budget, there was little doubt that Thatcher and Pym had made a major diplomatic miscalculation. "Britain was rigid on all fronts," said a senior Community official. "It was rigid on sanctions. It was rigid on budgetary contributions, and it was rigid on farm prices. That simply is not the way the Community operates. In a compromise, everyone gives something and receives something...
...under fire from an unusual source: right-wing members of the Conservative Party are growing increasingly restless with their government's willingness to try for a negotiated settlement. To those M.P.s, Britain has already made too many concessions. Such accusations drew an angry riposte from Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, who stoutly insisted that "our resolve has not wavered. Our military presence in the South Atlantic is continuing to become stronger. If, in the end, Argentine intransigence prevented success in negotiations, Argentina will know there is another kind of ending to this crisis...
...five-member war cabinet. According to top-level British sources, Thatcher herself favors a frontal assault on Port Stanley, currently the Argentine strongpoint. She has also considered a British air strike against Argentina's mainland airbases. But the more cautious members of her inner circle, notably Foreign Secretary Pym and Deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw, are anxious to keep the avenues for a diplomatic solution open to the very end. They also fear heavy British casualties. Accordingly, they made a bargain with Thatcher, trading their support of her tough stand on the question of Falklands sovereignty for her acquiescence...
Moscow, which has been more of a taunting spectator than a participant in the Falklands dispute, stands to gain the most from the North-South fighting, even if the government in Argentina does not become more accommodating to the Soviets. Both Haig and British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym have complained that the U.S.S.R. has been "fishing in troubled waters" with its propaganda attempts to capitalize on the crisis. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, speaking at a Moscow dinner honoring Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra, said that the South Atlantic confrontation occurred "precisely because there are forces that are trying to preserve...