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...President Reagan, the Palace scandal, compounded by the revelation that the queen's former bodyguard is gay, has provided a respite from the repeated denunciations of his foreign policy made by the British press and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, acting as pointperson for Western European leaders...
...runway at Port Stanley for use by a squadron of Phantom jet fighters and Nimrod reconnaissance planes. Britain intends to establish a permanent garrison of some 2,500 troops in the Falklands, as well as a naval force that will include two submarines and three frigates. As a Thatcher aide put it, "We shall be keeping our guard up for some considerable time to come...
...Conservative government of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had vowed to retain custody of the final batch of P.O.W.s until Buenos Aires formally admitted defeat in the 74-day war. Argentina refused, insisting instead that Britain had restored colonial rule over the Falklands. But in a message sent to Whitehall through the Swiss embassy in Buenos Aires, and relayed to London through the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern, Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Ramón Aguirre Lanari admitted that .here was a "de facto cessation of hostilities." The Thatcher government, faced with having to move the prisoners 8,000 miles...
...destabilize the southern portion of Latin America, where Argentina is embroiled in a longstanding territorial dispute with Chile, another country under a U.S. arms embargo. Argentina hopes the U.S. will pressure Britain to negotiate the question of Falklands sovereignty. But the U.S. is standing pat, unwilling to ask Margaret Thatcher to make a politically difficult concession...
...that hardly seemed worth the cost in European ill-will. The White House clearly underestimated the depth of European resentment, despite warnings from, among others, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig (the pipeline furor played no small part in his abrupt resignation last month). British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, visiting Washington shortly after the sanctions were tightened, vehemently protested the move. A surprised Reagan responded: "But I thought you could live with it." Thatcher made it clear that she could...