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Secretary of State Haig had urged the British to be "magnanimous" in victory, but British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seemed unmoved. Magnanimity "was not a word I use in connection with the Falklands," she told a television interviewer at midweek. To give in "to an invader and an aggressor and a military dictator," she said, "would be treachery or betrayal of our own people." Only one thing could halt the British drive: an immediate Argentine decision to "withdraw within the next ten to 14 days...
Washington could also take heart from the fact that official Latin American criticism was not unanimous and was frequently delivered more in sorrow than in anger. Although most countries in Central and South America recognize Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the Falklands, many viewed Argentina as the aggressor last April. Mexican officials conceded that, in the words of one diplomat, U.S. support for Britain was "easily predicted from the beginning." The trouble was, he added, that "the U.S. has no friends, no allies in Latin America, only interests. And those interests are often not in the best interest...
...setback. Until the Falklands war, the U.S. was counting on Argentina and Venezuela for help in its attempt to bolster El Salvador's regime against leftist guerrillas and condemn Nicaragua's revolutionary government for allegedly aiding the insurgents. Any new U.S. offensive branding Nicaragua as a "Marxist aggressor" will meet with little backing after Nicaragua's outspoken support for Argentina. Reports one recent visitor to Nicaragua: "After the first shots were fired in the Falklands, you could almost hear a great sigh of relief coming from Managua...
...known, Iranian leaders declared that they would stop at nothing, including the invasion of Iraq, in order to achieve two objectives: the downfall of Saddam Hussein and the collection of huge war reparations. Tehran has been telling Arab governments that Iran has a right to square accounts with an aggressor that has inflicted more than $100 billion in damage, killed and maimed tens of thousands of Iranians, and rendered at least 1.5 million homeless. The Khomeini government is insisting that it has no territorial ambitions, either in Iraq or other countries of the gulf, but that it cannot afford...
...Tehran, Moscow was hoping to negotiate a peace settlement between the two countries and use that agreement as the basis of a new pro-Soviet alliance. No way, said Khomeini, adding that the real test of Soviet friendship rested on whether Moscow would publicly condemn Saddam Hussein as the aggressor in the war and would halt all arms shipments to Iraq. The Soviets temporized, finally concluding that there was little they could do to dissuade Khomeini from his determination to destroy Saddam Hussein. With Moscow's blessing, Syria gave Iran a shipment of sophisticated, Soviet-supplied weaponry (including missile...