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On the other hand, both papers note that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, appreciative of Pinochet's pro-British stand during the Falklands War, has already publicly appealed for his release.
In a letter to the paper from the United States, where she is on a lecture tour, the former British prime minister said Pinochet helped shorten the 1982 Falklands War by supporting Britain and saved many British lives as a result.
In London, the Times, which has opposed Pinochet's arrest, criticized the British government for rejecting "the best way of settling this calamitous affair, allowing General Pinochet to fly home on Chile's waiting jet" and, instead, permitting the court decision in his favor to go to appeal.
This finding prompted, the Post reports, Pinochet's lawyers to observe that their client is therefore vulnerable to prosecution only because he stepped down in favor of a democratic government.
In Paris, an editorial in Le Monde, published before the court's decision, said that, whatever the outcome, Pinochet should be made to confront his past, whether in London, Madrid, or Santiago.