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...agreement must "inexorably" lead to their sovereignty over the islands. When Britain continued to balk at this, Argentina appeared to back off by calling sovereignty an ultimate "objective" rather than a precondition to talks. At the same time, however, the Argentines hardened their position on mutual withdrawal. Meanwhile, the Thatcher government, stung by increasing "sellout" charges from Conservative Party backbenchers, stiffened its stance on the role of the islanders in the U.N.-sponsored transitional administration...
...negotiations reached a crucial turning point on May 14, when Parsons was summoned back to London for urgent consultations with Thatcher's War Cabinet. The ambassador returned to New York early last week bearing Britain's "final" bargaining position, which Pérez de Cuéllar passed on directly to Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Ros. Late the following evening the Argentines came to the U.N. tower with Galtieri's response to the British ultimatum. Near midnight, Sir Anthony made his now familiar trek to the 38th-floor suite, where Pérez de Cuéllar...
Nowhere was that intensity more evident than in the House of Commons, where angry Conservative demands to "get on with" a counterinvasion vied with pleas from the opposition Labor Party to avoid precipitate action. Bolstered by a poll that showed the public in favor of a full-scale invasion, Thatcher made it clear that she would take strong military action if the response to Britain's latest proposals was unsatisfactory...
...there much will to compromise on the part of the Thatcher government. During his many visits to 10 Downing Street, Haig watched time and again as Thatcher pounded the table with the palm of her hand, railing against bowing down to aggression and arguing adamantly for a return to the status quo ante. "You must never forget," she would tell her stunned American guests, evoking the specter of pre-World War II appeasement, "that Neville Chamberlain sat at this very table...
...public opinion would say, 'This gentleman is from South America and he might tilt toward the Argentines.' But I must say the British government has always given me its full support and expressed its full confidence in me." The British have indeed: reporting to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on his talks, U.N. Ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons described the Secretary-General as being "highly skillful, extremely patient, a very professional career diplomat with special ability in the construction of realistic compromises." U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig also gives Pérez de Cuéllar good marks...