Word: thatcherism
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...club has five polo fields, two swimming pools, a golf course, cricket pitch and gabled clubhouse. Says an Anglo-Argentine businessman: "The tragedy of it all is that 99% of the Anglo-Argentine community are in favor of the Argentine stand. We can't understand why Mrs. Thatcher reacted so violently...
Even so, the Thatcher government has advised the roughly 17,000 British subjects in the country to leave, and British officials in Buenos Aires are asking them to register at the Swiss embassy, which is handling London's interests. "We're just counting our flock," says one diplomat. So are the Argentines: plain-clothes policemen are reported to be conducting a census of Britons in Buenos Aires. Anglo-Argentines are feeling suddenly vulnerable in a country where weeks ago it was a mark of status to be British. Says one nervous Anglo-Argentine: "Everybody's scared...
Costa Méndez's remarks may have 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...
...very nature of the face-off. Britain's firm conviction throughout has been that only by means of the steady escalation of both military and diplomatic pressure could Argentina be forced to relinquish a prize that it had taken by an illegal armed invasion. As Prime Minister Thatcher, the Iron Lady of British politics, told the House of Commons last week, "Gentle persuasion is not going to make the Argentine government give up what it has seized by force." The broader principle was that anything less than determined resistance to the Argentine invasion would, to use the words...
...dispelled on April 25. At dawn's first light, more than 100 members of M Company, 42nd Commando, of the Royal Marines were landed on remote and mountainous South Georgia Island, a British dependency some 800 miles east of the Falklands. By 6 that evening, Prime Minister Thatcher was able to enjoin Britons to "rejoice, rejoice," as she and Defense Secretary John Nott announced the recapture of their first objective in the South Atlantic without a single British casualty. Fighting continued on South Georgia, however, until at least 10 a.m. the following...