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...week's end Reagan's advisers were professing private optimism that Haig could work out something to avert or at least delay an armed clash. But the President confined his own comments to asserting limply that "we are friends of both sides in this." Reagan was trapped between the U.S. reliance on Britain as its staunchest supporter and his strategy of wooing Latin American states that take a strong anti-Communist line. In addition, his prestige suffered when he could not persuade the Argentines to call off their invasion of the Falklands...
...they called Las Malvinas. Nobody paid much attention, however, and several years passed before the Argentines made any attempt to take possession. They then appointed an ambitious cosmopolitan named Louis Vernet to be governor of the Malvinas, with exclusive fishing rights in the surrounding waters. That brought on a clash in 1831 with a new power: the U.S. Three American sealing schooners denied Vernet's authority, so Vernet seized them and took one ship with its crew to Buenos Aires for prosecution. There U.S. Consul George Slacum demanded that Vernet be prosecuted for piracy. When the Argentines demurred, the patrolling...
...mayhem merely exacerbated. Quite sin ply Israeli control over a rapidly growing Arab population in Palestinian territory can't be peacefully maintained. And the only alternative to peaceful control is forcible occupation--an alternative that looks less attractive with every set of demonstrations, shootings and arrests. Indeed, each new clash only makes it clearer that ultimately the price of Israeli occupation will be civil...
Despite its old-time movie aspects, this international confrontation has no easy, predictable solution. Nationalistic fervor runs high in both countries and two embattled governments, each badly needing a clear-cut victory, are heading quickly toward a clash. Ideally, the two nations will capitalize on the lag-time provided as the British fleet moves southward by resurrecting a proposal made last year. Argentina sovereignty over the Falklands, but allow Britain to lease them for some years until a permanent solution is negotiated. During this leasehold, the two nations would share the oil and mineral revenues from the islands and surrounding...
...launched only a handful of low-level probes around San Salvador last week. On Monday, groups of insurgents attacked army posts in the suburbs of Cuscatancingo, Mejicanos and Villa Delgado. Next day, rebels opened fire on the army-escorted funeral procession of two civil guardsmen killed in the Cuscatancingo clash, causing the mourners to scatter and abandon the cortege...