Alternate History 🇺🇸 November 2, 1976: President Nelson Rockefeller wins election to full 4-year term and the aftermath

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: BBC REPORTING QUEEN ELIZABETH II KIDNAPPED; DETAILS DEVELOPING
*Full-scale Search and Rescue Operations throughout the United Kingdom in finding kidnapped Queen.
*British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher informed on Queen Elizabeth II being kidnapped; holds closed door meeting with British NSC at 10 Downing Street.
*Europe on high alert on news of kidnapping.

*Monday, March 22, 1982: Britons woke up to the shocking news upon learning that Queen Elizabeth II was mysteriously kidnapped while at Buckingham Palace by a mysterious group of mercenaries. Some suspect it might've been the work of the Military Junta of the Argentine Republic, whom many believe are involved in the kidnapping; Others suggest the suspect list should include the IRA terrorist organization.

BBC reported that all of Europe is on high alert as a massive Search and Rescue Operation is currently ongoing. British Home Secretary William Whitelaw is reportedly considering resigning from his job due to incompetence from law enforcement following strong backlash on the failed security protocols of Buckingham Palace.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

FLAG OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC RAISED ON SOUTH GEORGIA
*Friday, March 19, 1982: Infiltrating as civilian scientists and scrap metal workers, a Naval Unit consisting of the Argentinian Navy and the Argentinian Marine Corps arrived at Leith Harbour on board the transport ship ARA Bahia Suceso, which didn't have landing clearance and raised the flag of the Argentine Republic.

MILITARY COUP D'ETAT IN BANGLADESH
*Wednesday, March 24, 1982: Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Hussain Mohammad Ershad launches a successful military coup d'etat overthrowing the Bangladeshi government of embattled Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar, whose administration had faced massive political turmoil and non-stop meddling from the Bangladeshi Armed Forces.

ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS: CHARIOTS OF THE FIRE WIN FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS
*Monday, March 29, 1982: During the 54th Academy Awards which were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California which was hosted by Johnny Carson, "Chariots of Fire" won Best Picture including three additional Academy Awards.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

NSFW DISCLAIMER: The following installment will be NSFW gruesome, grisly and graphic. Viewer discretion is advised.

Personal PoV's from the Argentine Republic: Angelica's backstory (Part I)
1:00 AM ARGST, Monday, March 29, 1982
Somewhere in the Argentine Republic ​

......"Inside the sound-proof dungeon, I was asleep inside my cell when I heard someone wheeling something down past my cell, pretending to sneak a peak: I watched one nervous Argentinian Army enlisted soldier wheeling a stretcher with a large white sheet covering over it. I couldn't comprehend why this nervous soldier was sweating profusely because it looked like he was instructed to take "The Perfect Shape" to a secret air-conditioned room way down toward a large tunnel. Always curious, I decided to check it out......

The time was 2:40 AM in the morning when I found an escape hatch across my bedcot of the cell and snuck inside the hatch: carefully walking calmly toward another way toward this large runnel, where this nervous soldier was taking "The Perfect Shape" to an unknown destination.......

Having arrived in one of the secret passageways, I snuck inside one of the hideout patches to see what was happening. I should note that this hideout patch was sound-proof and had dark tinted triple windows including one binocular which I picked up to see what was going on......

With the binouclars I was using doing all of the watching and talking, I watched as I saw that creepy sadist Mendoza spilling to the nervous soldier: "This is classified and a state secret Mendes. But the young lady underneath this large sheet is a nun from one of the convents, who died on us during one of the Interrogation sessions, I need to carefully examine this young nun thoroughly all night. Now go home and I'll see you later on for the next mission."

What I witnessed before my very eyes made me have PTSD and other nightmares: Mendoza removed the large white sheet which had covered "The Perfect Shape": it was none other than Sister Inez, who had secretly disappeared from the convent in the outskirts of Buenos Aires following her controversial outspoken criticism of the Military Junta of the Argentine Republic especially blasting the administration of Argentine Republic President Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri.

Now back to the story: Mendoza was eye-googling Inez as he forcefully took off all of her clothes from head to toe: revealing her naked and barefoot, then he was feeling up all over Inez's naked body from head to toe including kissing her in the mouth which made me nauseated and sick.

Mendoza turned Inez on her left side; picked up a scaple knife, drew an incision on her back and thoroughly removed all of Inez's entire skin from head to toe, revealing her skinless on the large steel-slab. Laying Inez on her back, Mendoza used the same scaple knife to open Inez up and removed all of the organs: brain; esophagus; larynx (everything in the throat); lungs; heart; kidneys; liver; intestine; stomach and everything else.

I was horrified watching this going on before my very eyes. I wanted to run and escape, but I had to keep watching: Mendoza then put all of the organs into some large steel box and took it somewhere in some location of the dungeon. He returned and injected something into Inez as he placed her into some glass container clear box as all of the gases aggressively purged out of her nose and mouth while Mendoza washed his hands and used a large hose to clean up the room.

Following this: Mendoza lifted Inez's naked skinless body out of the clear glass container and placed her on another stretcher and sewed her body up; then I watched as he used some weird clear gel goo-like lathering all over Inez's naked skinless body from head to toe. Afterwards, he wheeled Inez's naked skinless body on the stretcher toward another secret tunnel and I was curious to see where this monster was taking her: I watched in more horror as Mendoza took off his clothes and began having sex with Inez's naked skinless body on his bed (Mendoza was on top of Inez on the bed) in the room. I couldn't comprehend why this was happening and I was scared he would catch me and do the same thing to me.

Sneaking away from Mendoza's secret hideout, I ran all the way towards one of the escape hatches before stopping to see more horrifying discoveries: the naked skinless body of my cousin, Madeleine, who disappeared in the Fall of 1981. Mendoza likely tortured her to death during an interrogation one night at his secret hideout and removed her entire skin before placing Madeleine's naked skinless body inside a large pool with the bright colors of the Argentinian flag. I was horrified to find my cousin like this in a gruesome grisly way.

And as I pledged to escape while retrieving Madeleine and Inez's bodies out of this hideout, I was determined to avenge their deaths one way or another.

Once I snuck back inside of my cell, I went back to sleep but I couldn't sleep because of the horror I had witnessed."

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"The polling surveys showed Brown and Bradley leading both the US Senate and Gubernatorial elections respectively in potential head-to-head matchups. But there was something undermeath the surface that none of the pollsters couldn't see: something of anti-Brown and anti-Bradley sentiment was brewing in the most conservative Republican areas of the Golden State.

There was a Swift Boating Group using aggressive coded dog whistles hammering Mayor Bradley on the public safety including the 2nd Amendment regarding gun ownership as well as tackling violent crime. Using mugshots of criminals by implying the thugs will rape your wives and daughters while you're at work. It was fucking disgusting and struck below the belt.

These slick devious jackasses used similar tactics against Governor Brown for the US Senate election as well by tying him to the ongoing violent crime rate blistering major cities across the Golden State. They also used swift boating commercials blasting Brown over pretty much everything from the budget shortfall to the fruit medfly crisis."
-Excerpt from "The Bradley Effect in California Politics"

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"It has been a rare privilege and a high honor to serve in your Administration, and become that in the years of your campaign for the Presidency. You have created memories which will accompany me and my family forever, and your trust and confidence are a source of deep pride and satisfaction.

In accordance with your request that I continue to serve the Administration, I shall be pleased to undertake the interim task we discussed.

Sir, you have my high esteem and my warm good wishes as you continue in the second year of your historic Presidency.

Faithfully,
Dick"
-Resignation letter of National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen
4 January 1982

 

[Sergeant Foley]

......"Something was brewing inside Mexico and it had been escalating since Robles imposed nationwide Martial Law. Opponents of the Robles administration had been gotten emboldened in the past few months of 1981 since Fernanda's death and they justified demonstrations with calls for a return to democracy that hadn't seen a real democratic election since 1970.

Some segments of the Mexican Army led by Almendariz had begun plotting ways to overthrow Robles during the early part of 1982. Many of whom had obvious reasons to undermining Robles: blatant mismanagement of the Mexican economy due to the ongoing Inflation Crisis of 1981 which had continued throughout 1982. Unemployment skyrocketed in some parts of Mexico leading coal miners to strike in several demonstrations which were aggressively put down by riot police on the orders of Robles; One main irritant for plotting to oust Robles: allegations of corruption inside the government's key agencies.

On 13 March 1982, Robles, in an effort to diffuse growing opposition and attempts to prevent more demonstrations from spreading across the country, announced on national television that he was imposing full nationwide Martial Law Proclamation #1325 which banned all demonstrations, protests, political activity against the Administration and the Mexican government overall.

With the world's attention focused on the mysterious kidnapping of Queen Elizabeth II by mercenaries, Julian Serrano, the nephew of Mexican President General Oscar Robles, was free to do whatever he wanted and by that, it meant Julian also have secret passionate sex with young beautiful women particularly teenage girls: one instance occurred on 23 March 1982 when Paula Almendariz was enticed by one classmate to "spend vacation time" at a large ranch, where it was rumored that Paula suffered a "health incident" under mysterious circumstances and supposedly disappeared, never to be heard from again.

However, one anonymous eyewitness detailed that Paula was thoroughly "secretly examined" in a secret tunnel by Julian, who personally removed Paula's entire skin from head to toe, revealing her completely skinless. This anonymous eyewitness for fear of her life, also detailed in her secret diary that Julian had Paula's naked skinless body placed into a large glass container pool where she has remained there since.

Of course, President Robles himself wasn't even at the ranch when the incident in question occurred. He was in Los Pinos, the official residence of the Mexican President and First Family during the whole time.

Julian also used grisly methods of applying latex mask skin suits with Paula's resemblance on seven unconscious naked young women inside the large tunnel. He even had passionate sex with all of them due to his obsession with Paula's beauty and what he referred to as "her beautiful perfect shape of a body".

While Paula's family was desperately searching for her and pleading for anyone to come forward with what they know about her whereabouts, Paula was floating inside of the large glass container pool inside the underground tunnel of Julian's large ranch.

Among those searching for Paula was her father, Major General Franklin Almemdariz, who personally held the Robleses responsible for Paula's mysterious disappearance and the Almendarizes were going to find Paula no matter what: alive or deceased and bring her back home."
-Excerpt from "The Dark Side of the Robles Dictatorship: Stories of the Disappeared"

 

[Sergeant Foley]

@The Immortal Watch Dog This intriguing installment is for you

Second Phase of Operation Sociopath
11:43 PM BST, April 5, 1982
Grand Hotel
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom ​

Galtieri gave the green-light to invade the Falklands on April 2nd, when the Argentine Republic launched their invasion of the Falklands Islands because Galtieri assumed the British wouldn't respond and send any British troops halfway across the world. The audacity of this crazy unhinged triggered dictator thumbing his nose at the world was a constant international intrigue both strategically and politically disastrous.

While the world had their eyes glued to the ongoing developments of the Falklands War of 1982, Galtieri was scheming something more sinister, uglier and deadlier: giving the full green-light for the infamous and ruthless 601st Intelligence Battalion Death Squad to exterminate the entire British government as well as killing remaining members of the British Royal Family.

Having accomplished Phase 1 by having Queen Elizabeth II kidnapped on March 13th, Galtieri was determined to up the ante even further by inflicting lots of damage to the British government with the intention of seeing it fall on its knees. Classified documents years later confirmed that Galtieri had also planned to assassinate Chilean President General Augusto Pinochet including the invasion plans in store of Chile following the Falklands War of 1982 being concluded that everyone inside the Military Junta of the Argentine Republic assumed would be an easy Argentinian victory with little or no resistance by the British.

With members of the infamous and ruthless 601st Intelligence Battalion Death Squad arriving in Brighton, they planted explosives and bombs in one of the rooms accompanying the hotel suite of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was working on her speech during the late night hours of April 5th.

The time was 10:00 PM BST when Argentinian Army Captain Rudy Mendoza (the sinister and evil sadist) disguised as a businessman noticed a hotel maid putting some things on the wheeling-cart and she noticed one of Mendoza's colleagues was acting all fidgety and weirdly. Mendoza known for his violent gruesome methods, carefully walked behind the poor unsuspecting young hotel maid and knocked her out via secretive injection and dragged her into the stairwell before placing her in his vehicle and driving to an undisclosed location (more on this later).

Meanwhile, Argentinian Army Major Brutus Soto disguised as a butler applied last-minute fake gumlike sticking platter on the makeshift desk across from the hotel suite of the British Prime Minister. Soto calmly left the area while holding onto a black briefcase; passing by agents of the British Secret Service agents and local law enforcement officers. He then walked across the street to the parking lot, closed the door to his vehicle after getting inside: talking to himself "Call it. Heads or Tails?" The quarter landed on the passenger seat, it was Heads.

Opening up the briefcase, Soto pressed the weird orange button detonating the explosives and bombs as the Grand Hotel exploded with a loud thundering BOOM!

 

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: BBC NEWS REPORT BULLETIN
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER ASSASSINATED
*BBC News get official confirmation of massive explosions that occurred at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, East Sussex resulted in the death of the British Prime Minister.
*Authorities confirm death toll is 73 and counting.
*Explosions occurred at 11:43 PM BST.
*Thatcher's husband, Denis Thatcher narrowly survived explosion blast.
*Full-Scale investigation into the Thatcher assassination ongoing.

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[Sergeant Foley]

Personal PoV's: Over in South America
9:56 PM ARGST, April 13, 1982
Somewhere in South America
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......"That Uppity Bitch was inside her cell with her feet chained up like a dog. I walked inside and noticed she looked confused and didn't know where she was so ragged, I chuckled inside as I was thinking of a way to twisting the insult knife even further.

"I demand to know where I am," that Uppity Bitch railed. I barked at her by saying "Know your place Uppity Bitch. Oh, I see you haven't seen the papers today.... (I was smiling while reading the newspapers), there's an incident over across the Pond and I think you'll be interested to finding out what's all the fuss about."

I threw one of the newspapers to the table of where Uppity Bitch was staring at. She struggled to flip pages before she realized the large bolded headlines of the newspaper reading the words: "BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER ASSASSINATED; 73+ OTHERS KILLED IN GRAND HOTEL BOMBING". I slammed the door shut behind me smiling while I heard that Uppity Bitch crying. It was a fucking beautiful sight!"
-Admiral Ramses Dominguez
Argentinian Navy

 

[Sergeant Foley]

STATE FUNERAL FESTIVITIES HELD FOR THE LATE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER

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*Thursday, April 15, 1982: Mourners paid their respects to the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Saint Stephen's Hall in the Palace of Westminister during the period of April 13th-April 15th and among those paying their respects: US President Ronald Reagan, French Republic President Francois Mitterrand and Chilean President General Augusto Pinochet among countless others.

On the morning of April 15th, the State Funeral festivities were held at Saint Paul's Cathedral, where an estimated 2,300 people attended which included several Heads of State; Heads of Government; 11 Prime Ministers; 17 Foreign Ministers; Prime Minister Geoffrey Howe was in attendance. Representing the British Royal Family were Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Crown Prince Charles and Princess Diana of Wales attended the State Funeral as well as former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan (1957-1963); Alec Douglas Home (1963-1964); Harold Wilson (1964-1970; 1974-1976); Edward Heath (1970-1974) and James Callaghan (1976-1979).

Following the State Funeral festivities, Thatcher was cremated in a private ceremony and will be buried at the Royal Hospital Chelsea at a later date according to spokesperson for the Thatcher family.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

STADLER WINS MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP IN AUGUSTA
*Sunday, April 11, 1982: Craig Stadler wins the 46th US Masters Tournament Championship in Augusta, Georgia defeating Dan Pohl on the first hole of the Sudden Death Playoff.

THREE CBS EMPLOYEES SHOT DEAD ON PARKING LOT; AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATING
*Monday, April 12, 1982: Three CBS employees were shot to death on a parking lot in New York City, New York State.

APOLLO COMPUTERS UNVEIL DN400 AND DN420
*Thursday, April 15, 1982: Apollo Computer announced their unveiling of the DN400; DN420 and Landscape Display.

COMMONWEALTH OF CANADA CONSTITUTION PROCLAIMED
*Friday, April 16, 1982: Serving as acting Head of State since the mysterious kidnapping of Queen Elizabeth II on March 13th, Crown Prince Charles of Wales officially proclaimed Canada's new constitution.

PROCLAMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION ACT SIGNED DURING TELEVISED CEREMONY
*Saturday, April 17, 1982: Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Prince Charles of Wales both signed the Proclamation of the Constitution Act during a televised ceremony.

FLAMBOYANT COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND HOSTS NBC'S "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE"
*Country music legend Johnny Cash serves as guest host of NBC's "Saturday Night Live", where he participated in several skits including performing medley of musical hits. Elton John was an additional musical guest during the performance section.

ZIMBABWEAN GOVERNMENT NAMES NEW CAPITAL CITY
*Sunday, April 18, 1982: The Zimbabwean capital city formerly known as Salisbury was renamed Harare.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

86TH BOSTON MARATHON: SALAZAR WINS MEN'S TITLE; TESKE VICTORIOUS CLAIMING WOMEN'S TITLE
*Monday, April 19, 1982: American Alberto Salazar wins the men's title in 2:08:51; Charlotte Teske of West Germany wins the women's title in 2:29:33.

NASA ASTRONAUT HISTORICAL MOMENTS: BLUFORD AND RIDE MAKE HISTORY RESPECTIVELY
*Guinon Bluford was announced as the first African American NASA Astronaut while Sally Ride was announced as the first female NASA astronaut.

QUEEN BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS ADDRESSES US CONGRESS

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*Wednesday, April 21, 1982: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands delivers an address before Joint Session of the US Congress.

SINCLAIR 2X SPECTRUM UNVEILED
*Friday, April 23, 1982: 8-bit personal home computer, the Sinclair 2X Spectrum was unveiled and quickly sold five million worldwide.

DURBIN WINS BOWLING TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
*Saturday, April 24, 1982: Mike Durbin wins the Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions.

ISRAEL WITHDRAWS FROM SINAI PENINSULA
*Sunday, April 25, 1982: In accordance with the Camp David Accords and Peace Treaty with Egypt, the State of Israel officially withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula altogether.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN AND FIRST LADY NANCY REAGAN VISITING THE CARRIBBEAN WITH VISITS TO JAMAICA AND BARBADOS

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*Wednesday, April 7, 1982: President and First Lady Reagan began their visit to the Carribbean with visits to the Commonwealth of Jamaica (April 7th-8th) and the Commonwealth of Barbados (April 8th-11th). Upon arriving at the Norman Manley Airport in Kingston, Jamaica, the Reagan's were greeted by Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Philip George Seaga and his wife, Mitzy Seaga including greeting young Jamaican children, who were traditional attire during the Arrival Honors Ceremony festivities.

Following the Arrival Honors Ceremony festivities, Reagan and Seaga held discussions at the Jamaica House: Executive Office Building of the Prime Minister, where the following was discussed between the President and Prime Minister:

*Signing of the Double Taxation Agreement facilitating the holding of conventions in Jamaica by giving the same opportunities writing off business expenses against US tax liabilities.

*Purchasing of 1.6 million tons of baudite for the US Strategic Stockpile.

*Provisions in balancing of payment through the US/Jamaica Bilateral Economic Development Program.

*Establishment of the US Business Committee in Jamaica under the co-chairmanship of former US Secretary of the Treasury David Rockefeller and William Sneath.

*Reagan and Seaga also reviewed recent developments in Central America and the Caribbean and noted that the Salvadoran people in the March 28th elections demonstrated overwhelmingly their commitment to establishing free democratic institutions inside the Central American country.



COMING UP IN CHAPTER 12 OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: The Reagan's visiting the Commonwealth of Barbados during their trip to the Carribbean.

Upcoming Installments:
*Personal PoV's in the Falklands War of 1982.
*Pop Culture.
*Opposition growing against the Junta in the Argentine Republic.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

WILL ROCKEFELLER RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 1984? NATIONAL DEMOCRATS WANT TO KNOW

*Monday, April 26, 1982: Speculation has been swirling around West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller, the nephew of the late President Nelson Rockefeller, to see if he'll consider launching a campaign for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Rockefeller, whose second term as Governor will end on 14 January 1985 due to term limits in the West Virginia State Constitution, has been visiting places such as Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, New York State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado, Arizona, etc.,

The two-term Democratic Governor has been blasting Reagonomics for causing a nationwide economic recession, killing millions of small businesses, industries even closing down factories. "President Reagan thinks that his so-called economic policies would turn our economy around with that big tax cut from last year. Tell that to the factory workers in the Great Lakes, who lost their jobs, livelihoods and homes. Since the Fall of 1981, we're into an eighth recession since the end of World War II. Unemployment has been skyrocketing non-stop since the Great Depression."

Rockefeller hasn't said anything about his political future lately since winning reelection in 1980. National Democrats are watching a close eye on the West Virginia Governor to see if he'll take the plunge by running for the Presidency in two years; while the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has been recruiting him to consider running for the United States Senate in 1984, when many political analysts inside the Mountaineer State anticipate long-time United States Senator Jennings Randolph (D-WV) to not seek reelection.

GALLUP POLLING SURVEY (APRIL 26, 1982)
CONTROL OF CONGRESS 1982 MIDTERMS:
Democrats: 37%
Republicans: 25%
Undecided: 37%

 

[Sergeant Foley]

PRIMARY NIGHT IN THE LONE STAR STATE:
*UNITED STATE SENATOR MARK W. WHITE, JR., (D-TX) WINS DEMOCRATIC PARTY GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATION AFTER TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSIONER BUDDY TEMPLE WITHDRAWS
*TEXAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY UNITED AND READY TO TAKE DOWN INCUMBENT TEXAS GOVERNOR WILLIAM P. CLEMENTS, JR., IN NOVEMBER
*TEXAS GOVERNOR'S MANSION SHOWDOWN OFFICIALLY SET BETWEEN SENATOR WHITE VS GOVERNOR CLEMENTS
*DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION, REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL FIGURES BARGING INTO THE LONE STAR STATE
*ODD-SMAKERS CURRENTLY VIEW CLEMENTS FAVORED TO WIN REELECTION.....FOR NOW
*MASSIVE GOTV MACHINE RAMPING UP LED BY UNITED STATES SENATOR LLOYD BENTSEN (D-TX) AND TEXAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR WILLIAM P. HOBBY, JR.,

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*Saturday, May 1, 1982: In one of the lightest turnouts of any primary election, Texans came to the polls to choose who'll be their respective parties nominees for the Lone Star State's 27 congressional districts in the US House of Representatives; United States Senator; Governor; Lieutenant Governor; State Attorney General; Comptroller of Public Accounts; Commissioner of the General Land Office; Railroad Commissioner, Place 3; Texas Supreme Court Justice, Place 2; Texas Supreme Court Justice, Place 4; Texas Supreme Court Justice, Place 6; Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Presiding Judge; Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Place 7 and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Place 8.

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The results among some of the races were:

*UNITED STATES SENATOR(Democratic Primary)
United States Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-TX: incumbent): 987,153 (78.13%): Declared Winner
Joe Sullivan (D): 276,314 (21.87%)
Bentsen advances to the November 2, 1982 general election

*(Republican Primary)
US Rep. James M. Collins (R-TX): 152,469 (58.00%): Declared Winner
State Senator Walter H. Mengden (R-Houston): 91,780 (34.92%)
Collins advances to the November 2, 1982 general election
*Rating: Solid Democratic Hold

*GOVERNOR (Democratic Primary)
United States Senator Mark W. White, Jr., (D-TX): 773,673 (49.73%): Declared Winner
Railroad Commissioner Buddy Temple (D): 402,693 (30.54%)
Commissioner of General Land Office Bob Armstrong (D): 262,189 (19.88%)
White advances to the November 2, 1982 general election

*(Republican Primary)
Governor William P. Clements, Jr., (R-incumbent): 246,120 (92.58%): Declared Winner
Lowell Embs (R): 19,731 (7.42%)
Clements advances to the November 2, 1982 general election
*Rating:TOSS-UP
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COMING UP IN CHAPTER 12 OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: Match-Ups for the Statewide Offices in the Lone Star State on the upcoming November 2, 1982 general election campaign.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Statewide Offices Matchups for 1982
1:37 PM CST, Nonday, May 3, 1982
Austin, Texas

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With the primaries over, the matchups for several of the statewide offices in Texas were officially set for November. And among them with intriguing interests: the Governorship where White and Clements were both going to battle it out all the way to the finish.

*United States Senator
United States Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-TX: incumbent) vs US Rep. James M. Collins (R-TX)
Rating: Solid Democratic Hold

*Governor
Governor William P. Clements, Jr., (R-incumbent) vs United States Senator Mark W. White, Jr., (D-TX)
Rating: Toss-Up

*Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor William P. Hobby, Jr., (D-incumbent) vs former Texas Secretary of State George Strake (R)
Rating: Solid Democratic Hold

*State Attorney General (OPEN)
US Rep. Jim Mattox (D-TX) vs Bill Meier (R)
Rating: Likely Democratic Hold

*Comptroller of Public Accounts
State Comptroller of Public Accounts Robert D. "Bob" Bullock (D-incumbent) vs Mike Richards (R)
Rating: Safe Democratic Hold

*Commissioner of the General Land Office (OPEN)
Garry Mauro (D) vs Woodrow Glaskcock (R)
Rating: Likely Democratic Hold

*Commissioner of Agriculture (OPEN)
Jim Hightower (D) vs Fred Thornberry (R)
Rating: Safe Democratic Hold

*State Treasurer (OPEN)
Travis County Commissioner Dorothy Willis Richards (D) vs Allen Clark (R)
Rating: Solid Democratic Hold

*Railroad Commissioner, Place 3
Railroad Commissioner Jim Nugent (D-incumbent) vs John T. Henderson (R)
Rating: Solid Democratic Hold

COMING SOON IN CHAPTER 12: Statewide Office Matchups in the Lone Star State consisting of the Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

1982 WORLD'S FAIR OPENS IN KNOXVILLE
*Saturday, May 1, 1982: The 1982 World's Fair opened in Knoxville, Tennessee with the theme: "Energy Turns the World." Most of the countries, states, and corporations, majority of whom had pavillons at the fair, devoted their exhibitions to energy: How to obtain it; conserve it and using it.

HISTORY IN THE MAKING IN YUGOSLAVIA
*Sunday, May 16, 1982: The Yugoslav Parliament chose Milka Planinc to serve as the country's Premier becoming the first female to holding the post. Planinc succeeds Veselin Djuranovic, who held the postition since 1977.

JORGE BLANCO ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
*Salvador Jorge Blanco won the Presidential election to succeed the late Dominican Republic President Antonio Guzman, whose been in office since 1978. Jorge Blanco is expected to be inaugurated on August 16th.

SPAIN JOINS NATO; BECOMES 16TH MEMBER OF THE DEFENSE ALLIANCE
*Sunday, May 30, 1982: The Kingdom of Spain became the 16th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Spain is the first new member of the defense alliance since West Germany since 1955.

COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT MAJOR GENERAL SEYMOUR QUINTERO REELECTED COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT; WILL BE SWORN IN ON AUGUST 7TH
*Colombian President Major General Seymour Quintero, who took power in a bloodless military coup d'etat in the Summer of 1977 and won election to a full four-year term in 1978, was easily reelected as the 26th President of the Republic of Colombia in a massive landslide victory with 73% of the nationwide vote.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: ISRAELI TROOPS INVADE LEBANON; FIGHTING BOTH PLO AND SYRIAN TROOPS
*June 6, 1982: Israeli military troops launched an invasion into Lebanon. The main justification for the invasion: destroying military bases of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Four days later on June 10th, Israeli forces reached the capital city of Beirut, where the city had suffered heavy damage and many civilians were killed. In addition to fighting the PLO, the Israelis also had to fight with Syrian troops, who were stationed in Lebanon. By the end of the month, mediators were desperately trying to arranging for full withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon altogether.

MILITARY COUP D'ETAT IN CHAD
*June 7, 1982: Chadian President Goukouni Oueddei, who has been in office since 1979 was overthrown in a military coup d'etat and replaced by Hissen Habre.

JUGNAUTH ELECTED MAURITIUSAN PRIME MINISTER
*June 12, 1982: Aneerood Jugnauth becomes the new Prime Minister of Mauritius following parliamentary elections. He succeeds Sir Seewoosagur Ramgolam, who had been in office since the island became an Independent nation in 1968.

PRINCESS DIANA OF WALES GIVES BIRTH TO FIRST BORN SON
*June 21, 1982: Diana, Princess of Wales, gives birth to her first child, a boy. He was named William Arthur Philip Louis, and he will be known as Prince William of Wales. The baby is second-in-line to the British Throne, after his father, Charles, Prince of Wales.

HINCKLEY FOUND GUILTY FOR KILLING WHITE PRESS SECRETARY JIM BRADY; ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF PRESIDENT REAGAN
*A federal grand jury finds John W. Hinckley, Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan and three othet people including killing then-White House Press Secretary Jim Brady on 30 March 1981, guilty of capital murder and will be sentenced to death.

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: HAIG RESIGNS AS US SECRETARY OF STATE
*June 25, 1982: Embattled US Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., announced his resignation as US Secretary of State. President Reagan nominated George P. Shultz to succeed him at the US State Department. Shultz would be confirmed by the Republican-controlled United States Senate on July 15th.

STRATEGIC ARMS REDUCTION TALKS BEGIN IN GENEVA
*June 29, 1982: The United States and the Soviet Union began strategic arms reduction talks (START) in Geneva, Switzerland. The main objective of these talks were reducing the number of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, stockpiled by the two major nuclear superpowers.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Personal PoV's: The Helicopter Ride of Death
10:00 PM, June 27, 1982
Somewhere in South America
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......"We woke up that Uppity Bitch inside her cell by blind-folding and gaging her by having her mouth taped shut. I ripped off her clothes from head to toe, revealing her naked and barefoot. Isturiz had placed chains on her ankles and used handcuffs to make sure she wouldn't try to escape.

It was around 10:00 PM when we placed her inside the helicopter where we would use it for "Special Good Ole Helicopter Rides" for agitators, flying all the way toward the ocean and pushing these outside agitators to their deaths in the middle of the night.

I justified these methods as following the orders of our great President of the Argentine Republic: His Excellency Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri. The special helicopter was flying across the ocean somewhere over another country's ocean-like river when I gleefully shoved that Uppity Bitch out of the helicopter and watchec as she fell all the way down to the deep water. After shooting into the water to make sure she was dead, I ordered Isturiz "Let's ger the fuck out of here!" Once we got back to the base, I phoned President Galtieri and informed him "We shoved that Uppity Bitch into the deep ocean and made sure she'll never float up again!" Galtieri laughed on the other line and said "Good Job Lieutenant Colonel. Now let's start making plans on invading Chile once the Falklands War is over..."
-Javier Rosales
Argentine Republic Army Lieutenant Colonel
Summer 1982

 

[Sergeant Foley]

And the War Dragged On......
Summer 1982
Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic
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The one question many people wanted to ask was why after all of these years did the Argentine Republic use military force in taking control of the Falklands?

One of the major reasons: The military government had pledged to take control of the Falkland Islands by 1983, which was ironically, the 150th anniversary of the founding of the British colony. And time was running out on them very quickly!

For Argentine Republic President Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri, he had good reason for deflecting the people's attention elsewhere: many Argentinians were becoming more unhappy about the military dictatorship that had ruled this once-proud South American country since 24 March 1976 through a succession of military dictators: Videla, Viola and Galtieri himself. Plus despite the ongoing typical violent oppression against any forms of opposition, the economic situation inside the Argentine Republic was in big, big trouble with no signs of turning around; What also caused more problems were growing anti-government demonstrations that quickly turned violent in Buenos Aires.

When the Argentinian Armed Forces launched their invasion of the Falklands on 2 April 1982 by seizing South Georgia Island and the South Sandwich Islands, it touched off a buge wave of popular support for Galtieri, whose approval ratings were awful (bordering on 19%).

Crowds converged onto the grounds of the Casa Rosada during the week of April 10th including the squares of Buenos Aires shouting "Malvinas Argentinas" including other patriotic slogans. President Galtieri himself addressed the crowd from the balcony of the Casa Rosada and fired up the crowd with gloating potshots about the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom he called "The Tea Crumpet Bitch who deserved to get assassinated because of British meddling in international affairs," as the raucous crowd cheered loudly with some chanting "Death to Thatcher!"

Reaction to Galtieri's firing up the triggered crowd and insults about Thatcher didn't go too well. In London, reaction caused violent strong anti-Argentinian sentiment across the United Kingdom: some innocent Argentinians were violently attacked by angry Brits who had beaten them to a pulp and violence escalated into hate crimes during one evening, a female Argentinian college student was beaten up and violently gang-raped repeatedly.

British Prime Minister Geoffrey Howe immediately ordered a naval task force to the Falklands, some 8,000 miles away. Consisting of 30 major ships, the task force was among one of the largest assembled since the 1950s. Prince Andrew, the son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was serving in the British Royal Navy as a helicopter pilot aboard one of the 30 ships.

Due to the uglier deterioration of diplomatic relations, the British announced they're severing all diplomatic ties with the Argentine Republic; freezing all Argentinian financial assets held in the United Kingdom and launched massive economic sanctions which crippled the Argentinian economy.

Majority of the United Kingdom's allies inside the European Community also followed suit by imposing additional economic sanctions against the Argentine Republic. Meanwhile, the United States stepped in as an mediator in trying to find diplomatic solutions for resolving an escalating dispute.

However, the British and Argentinians couldn't even agree to a diplomatic solution on the Falkland Islands. London was firm into demanding the Argentinians withdraw all of their military troops and that the islanders be allowed to determine their own future; Buenos Aires rejected any plans including diplomatic solution that didn't include their right to ruling the Falkland Islands.

COMING UP IN CHAPTER 12 OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC:
*The British Counteroffensive.
*Personal PoV's on the long-dragged out Falklands War of 1982 continues.
*Argentinians strike British destroyer Sheffield.
*British retaliate by sinking the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano.
*Galtieri doubling-down on upping the ante even further.
*Personal PoV's from Argentinians and Britons.
*Chile gets into the act by coordinating with the British by participating in a full-scale invasion of the Argentine Republic.