Word: thatcherism
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...sharpest point of British insistence was that any cease-fire be linked to a guaranteed plan for the withdrawal of Argentine troops. The alternative, Thatcher told the Commons, would play into Argentine hands. "It would be too easy to say 'no military activities during negotiations,' " she said in reply to a question from Opposition Leader Foot. "We should then be hamstrung. The people on the islands would still be under the heel of the invader, while Argentina increased its activities on the mainland, with supplies and reserves, to attack us at their will...
...Uganda and the Canberra are running about $175,000 apiece. Cunard lost $3.5 million in revenues from the Mediterranean cruise it was forced to cancel but, like the other ship owners, expects to be fully compensated for whatever losses it incurs. Says an aide to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "This has been very good for the merchant navy. They haven't had it so good for years...
...popular as they were before the U.S. announced its support for Britain on April 30. While there were remarkably few reports of personal mistreatment of either Britons or Americans living in Argentina, the signs of ill feeling were unmistakable. The Argentine magazine Tal Cual lampooned British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a "pirate, witch and assassin." Radio stations were playing fewer English and American records. The Franco Inglesa, one of Buenos Aires' fashionable pharmacies, last week pointedly dropped the Inglesa. Fearing an increase of hostility, the U.S. embassy last week recommended that "nonessential" members of its 95-person staff...
...nations. Reagan was bothered by such an instant and severe public tilt toward the British. He decided instead "to go down the middle." The President told his aides that he did not intend in reality to be neutral but wanted a "balanced" public posture. American sentiment was with Margaret Thatcher, and so was Reagan. More than once he picked up the phone to reassure the Prime Minister that he was mindful of the enduring mutual commitment...
Newspapers were reduced to running side-by-side reports from the two capitals. Television networks, which pride themselves on being able to show events as they are happening anywhere on the globe, found themselves picturing Margaret Thatcher walking in and out of No. 10 Downing Street-again and again-though some good still shots eventually began to surface. Says CBS Evening News Executive Producer Van Gordon Sauter: "Viewers have become accustomed to not just instant but instantaneous coverage. And they, like our TV news people, are frustrated because it's just not available." Occasionally the British shipboard correspondents were...