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Another day with a war inching closer over the Falklands between Britain and Argentina.
THE countries of Latin America issued a formal truce in the Falklands. A resolution approved by the Organisation of American States to ” cease hostilities,” but fell short of Argentina’s demand that the British Naval Task Force be pulled from the South Atlantic. It endorsed Argentina’s claim to sovereignty over Falklands and deplored Common Market sanctions against Argentina. Argentina was urged not to carry out any action that might “exacerbate” the situation. But far from pressing retaliatory’ sanctions of Britain, the foreign ministers declared that Falklands should resolved within the framework of the United Nations Security Council resolution. That, in part, called on Argentina to withdraw its troops from the islands.
After being badly shaken less than four weeks earlier by Argentina’s Invasion of the Falklands, an angry uprising against her government in Parliament and the resignation of her trusted and influential foreign secretary, Lord Carrington, Margaret Thatcher has confidently risked everything on an uncompromisingly aggressive response to the crisis. In recent Cabinet meetings, appearances in Parliament and a lengthy national television Interview earlier in the week, Britain’s prime minister left little room for doubt about her unyielding determination to restore the Falklands to British rule as rapidly as possible by any necessary means.
Meanwhile – A last-ditch budget summit meeting between President Reagan and Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. ONeill, D-Mass., collapsed, leaving Congress with the chaotic task of writing the 1983 budget itself. When the three-hour session on Capitol Hill broke up, some of the participants made it clear that the two sides could not agree on a single major point. Moreover, they said, the meeting never had a chance of success. It was one hell of a disappointment, said Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., Reagans good friend. But then he added: Looking back on it, maybe this effort was dead in the water from the very beginning.
For the president, the failure of the budget summit meeting was a signal to turn to one of his most potent weapons, the television screen. Wednesday evening, James A. Baker III, the White House chief of staff, said Reagan has asked the TV networks for time, beginning at 8 p.m. EDT, to discuss the budget impasse.
And Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian teen-ager and wounded four other Arabs in clashes on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, the Israeli military command said. Israel’s 34th Independence Day brought anti-Israel demonstrations by Palestinians in the occupied territories and the Israelis themselves used the occasion for nationalist outpourings. This year marked the centennial of Jewish settlement in the Holy Land, and the dedication of new settlements set the theme. Three Arabs were hit by Israeli gunfire in the town of Halhoul, south of Jerusalem, after they attacked an Israeli foot patrol with rocks, a spokesman said. He said the troops fired at the rioters’ legs after tear gas and warning shots failed to disperse them, and one of the wounded Arabs died en route to a hospital.
And along with the continuing story of the Falklands that’s just a little of what went on, this April 29th in 1982 as reported by The CBS World News Roundup.
