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...only fellow South Americans and diplomatic neighbors but longtime personal friends as well. Pérez de Cuéllar told TIME's Louis Halasz: "I thought that perhaps at some stage British 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...
...with sanctions as well as rhetoric has helped to divide the Americas once again along North-South lines. A sweeping alliance of left-and right-wing regimes, spanning the ideological spectrum from Cuba to Brazil, has rallied to support Argentina, miscasting it as a victim of colonialist subjugation. "The tilt toward Britain will destroy the coalition we must have if we are to prevent a Communist takeover of Central America," said North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, the lone opponent of a Senate resolution endorsing a pro-British policy...
Washington's pro-British tilt, which it had little choice about adopting in the end, severely damaged what was a blossoming, albeit controversial, relationship with Argentina. The junta in Buenos Aires, shunned by the Carter Administration because of indefensible human rights violations, was courted by Reagan as a strategic ally in the anti-Communist crusade. Last year Administration officials proposed the resumption of arms sales to Argentina, which, like the U.S., is supporting the military campaign of El Salvador's government against leftist guerrillas. Some Latin American experts regarded this friendly abrazo as naive and misguided. Argued Johns...
When the crisis began, the State Department recommended the immediate recall of the U.S. Ambassador to Buenos Aires and cancellation of all contracts between the 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...
There is a moment in one of Vladimir Nabokov's novels when the narrator sees a mirror being unloaded from a van on a street in Berlin. Suddenly the mirror, by a tilt of grace, becomes "a parallelogram...