Taking Note
Black, George
PARIAHS OF THE WORLD, UNITE APRIL SEEMS TO BE A DANGEROUS month, when trigger fingers are itchier than usual. A month that has seen the bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi also marks the anniversary...
...Such idolatry calls forth the sky's vengeance...
...This outlandish military display has helped isolate Britain internationally...
...He also fails to note another, more pernicious instance of anti-semitism in the Nicaraguan Catholic Church: "[T]he leaders of Israel . . mistreated [the prophets], beat them, killed them...
...but they . . . also killed him, crucifying him...
...Perlmutter fails to note that D'Escoto denies ever making such a remark...
...Perlmutter wrote, "It is antisemitism when the Sandinista Foreign Minister, Miguel D'Escoto, publicly declares, 'I remembered that it was the Levites in the synagogue who crucified our Lord.' Biblical rhetoric...
...A month later, to the day, the British naval task force sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano as it steamed away from the battle zone, killing more than 300 sailors-casualties that official history has consigned to the same anonymous resting place as the civilians and patrol boat crews who died in Libya...
...But in my farewell issue as editor of Report on the Americas, I hope readers will forgive me for passing over John Kennedy's fiasco, and instead noting the fourth anniversary of an equally rash escapade-this one executed by the gang whose excesses dampen any nostalgia for my homeland of Great Britain...
...Argentina marked the fourth anniversary with masses and speeches...
...A month that has seen the bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi also marks the anniversary of some other unnatural disasters...
...Britain's role in the Libya episode will hardly boost the international standing of Thatcher and her government of semihousetrained polecats-to borrow the memorable phrase of one opposition politician...
...In exchange for a transfer of sovereignty, the deputies said, Argentina would be "prepared totally to respect an autonomous government for the islanders...
...The November UN resolution was passed by 107 votes to four: Thatcher's only supporters were Belize, Oman and the Solomon Islands...
...Hector Rios Erenti praised the memory of the "heroic action that allowed our national flag to once again flutter at the top of a mast in Puerto Argentino...
...According to the London Financial Times, Britain has now spent close to $4 billion on the Falklands/Malvinas since 1982-a mind-boggling $2.08 million for each of the islands' 1,922 inhabitants, or "kelpers...
...The Argentine military seemed unrepentant: Army Chief of Staff Gen...
...Margaret Thatcher," and observes that Britain "is becoming increasingly isolated on the international scene...
...Finally as supreme proof of his love, God sent his di- vine Son...
...It's the very rhetoric that historically has fueled pogroms...
...The issue of sovereignty still inflames Argentines, and civilian officials of the Alfonsin government, together with UN Secretary General Javier P6rez de Cuellar, recently have been making fresh attempts at a diplomatic settlement between Britain and Argentina-who remain technically at war...
...Continuing to crank out the tired charge of Sandinista antisemitism, Perlmutter fired off a letter to The New York Times on March 24 to back up Reagan's televised rampage the previous week...
...Thatcher was having none of it, telling Parliament, "I wish to make it absolutely clear that the sovereignty of the Falklands is not negotiable...
...The Jews killed the prophets and finally the Son of God...
...Most of the money has gone to build a huge military complex at Mount Pleasant, which can house 3,000 troops, and a huge airport able to handle any aircraft...
...We eagerly await Perlmutter's condemnation, and, for that matter, Obando's denial...
...T HATCHER'S RESPONSE TO THE NEGOtiating efforts suggests that Caputo is right...
...This particular call to the pogrom came in an October 1984 homily by Reagan's favorite Nicaraguan: Managua Archbishop--now Cardinal--Obando y Bravo...
...The most notable, of course, is the Bay of Pigs-25 years ago this April 17...
...What has been happening in the islands themselves since the war ended...
...Displaying the rapier wit for which British parliamentary debaters are famed, she went on to condemn anyone willing to con- sider the UN resolution as "absolutely bonkers...
...A group calling itself the Center of Volunteers for the Fatherland threw a wreath into the icy waters of the South Atlantic to mark the spot where the Belgrano went down...
...On April 2, 1982, Argentine troops captured the Falklands/ Malvinas islands...
...This talk should not be dismissed as the nostalgia of the military buffoons who ordered the suicidal mission to save their crumbling regime...
...O WIND UP ON A DIFFERENT NOTE, NObody enjoys jumping on the Sandinista-bashing bandwagon better than Nathan Perlmutter, Director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith...
...Indeed, when the Pentagon issued its map of the long, looping flightpath taken by the British-based F-Ills that bombed Tripoli, it seemed the perfect visual metaphor for two pariah nations, Britain and the United States, standing together and alone...
...A delegation of Argentine deputies who visited London in February was moderation incarnate, standing by the terms of a November 1985 UN General Assembly resolution, which urged "negotiations on all aspects of the future of the Falklands/Malvinas...
...Foreign Minister Dante Caputo blames "the intransigence of Mrs...
Vol. 20 • June 1986 • No. 3
