Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason was that at least 42% of Argentina's population is of Italian descent, and commercial ties between the two countries are strong...
...even more concern to the Thatcher government was the attitude of the U.S., which had officially swung to Britain's side in the Falklands dispute only on April 30, after a month of unsuccessful attempts to negotiate a diplomatic settlement. Thatcher's War Cabinet realized that it could not afford to lose U.S. sympathy. As a senior British Cabinet member told TIME, "We cannot and will not repeat the ghastly mistake of Sir Anthony Eden at Suez in 1956, when he led Great Britain into war without the backing of America." Of Prime Minister Thatcher, widely known...
Significantly, the Secretary-General's plan made no mention of the issue of ultimate sovereignty. Argentina was insisting that sovereignty is nonnegotiable, and Britain maintained that any settlement must respect the self-determination of the 1,800 Falkland Islanders, who are heavily in favor of remaining British. Pérez de Cuéllar set a midweek target for British and Argentine responses to his ideas, and a closed-door informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council was called the following day to consider the issue...
...miraculous feat of welding a historically divided and complex society into a united front. A local Gallup poll published in Buenos Aires last week indicated that 90% of those questioned believed that Argentina should use force if necessary to retain its sovereignty over the islands. Only 4% favored a settlement plan that included the withdrawal of the troops who have occupied the Falklands since the April 2 invasion...
...decision would naturally not sit well with Argentina, the planning has reached such an advanced state that cancellation at this point might generate more static than it would prevent. And last week John Paul, in a general audience at St. Peter's, again appealed for a negotiated settlement in the Falklands crisis...