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...been a bid for one last peace-keeping effort, possibly under the aegis of the U.N. and its Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuellar. Even though British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had earlier ruled out the possibility of any U.N.-sponsored peace effort, British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym announced in London that he would be returning to the U.S., first to consult with Secretary of State Haig and then to visit the U.N. in Manhattan. But Pym also had tough words for Costa Méndez: "Let him put his money where his mouth is. All the junta...
Like many Britons, Pym was pleased at the long-expected news that the U.S., which had tried for weeks to mediate the Falklands dispute, had officially moved to support its staunchest ally. Said Pym: "To have the world's most powerful state on our side must make Argentina see that aggression cannot pay. The British people are deeply grateful to the U.S., and especially to Mr. Haig for his remarkable efforts...
...assault on South Georgia offered the first concrete insight into the ways Britain might fight its difficult war in the Falklands. Even as Foreign Secretary Pym conferred in Washington with Secretary of State Haig on April 22 about a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis, as many as a dozen members of Britain's elite Special Boat Squadron, an ultra-secret frogman-commando unit, had slipped quietly ashore on the island. Their mission was to scout Argentine troop emplacements and estimate the size of the opposing force. The scouts reported that the Argentine troops at the South Georgia harbor...
...Haig returned to Washington, he had set an exhausting new record for shuttle diplomacy: 32,965 miles covered during 71 hr. 40 min. in the air on six flights between Washington, London and Buenos Aires in twelve days. And still negotiations continued, with no resolution. British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym came to the U.S. for two days of talks, even while the British fleet was closing in on South Georgia Island, a probable staging area for an invasion of the Falklands...
Shortly after concluding 4½ hours of arduous negotiations with Britain's new Foreign Secretary Francis Pym last week, Secretary of State Alexander Haig spent 70 minutes talking with TIME's State Department correspondents Gregory H. Wierzynski and Johanna McGeary. Excerpts from the interview...