And Now, to Win the Peace

Thatcher exults, Galtieri falls and Reagan faces Latin anger

"Today has put the Great back in Britain." So said an exultant Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last week as she greeted the euphoric crowd that had gathered outside 10 Downing Street, cheering and singing Rule Britannia, to celebrate Britain's victory in the ten-week war for the Falkland Islands. An emotional Thatcher shook hand after hand, and declared, "This is a great vindication of everything we have done. It proves that everything that we thought was right. What a night this has been for Britain! What...

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