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14. U.S. LACS OF APPRECIATION IS NOT UNDERSTANDABLE
TO THE ARGENTINE "MAN ON THE STREET," 'REN RE LEARNS
*PR EXAMPLE TRAT YOU WANTED TO USE US TO TAKE IN TEE
S^AB OF IRAN. GOVERNMENTS CHANGE, BUT ARGENTINES
RVMEMRFP all these PROBLEMS.

15. FOR IS REASON, PASTOR CONTINUED, GOA MUST ASK
NOW FOR PROFOUND CHANGES IN U.S. ATTITUDES TOWARD US,
PASTOR SAID. AND NOT ONL? MUST ATTITUDES TOWASD ARGENTINA
HE CHANGED, BUT ATTITUDES TOWARD MOST OF LATIN AMERICA.
THESE CHANGES OP ATTITUDES IN POLICY HOPEFULLY WILL BE
reflected at *re white house, in thf. congress, at inter-
MATIONAL MEETINGS. PASTOR ASKED THAT THE U.S. STOP_PRESSING
ARGENTINA SO SAPP IN NUCLEAR AFFAIRS ( IN RESPONSE TO"WHICH WS__
in)*fW-Ct3rSSI3S^.^SCOMt«NW9LG_MAT- 1HE-PRESIDENT POSTPONE A TRIP TO
^ THE gQVIF.T UNTON HE PLANS TO MAKE LATE?. THIS YEAR'"').

10. (AT THIS POINT PASTOR TOUCHED ON SEVERAL OTHER
SPECIFIC POSSIBLE ACTIONS BY THE UNITED STATES, WHICH
Hp DEVELOPED MORE FULLY THE FOLLOWING DAY. THEY ARE
RECORDED IN THAT CONVERSATION.)
17 PASTOR T^E.M ADDED: AND YOU MUST NOT CATEGORIZE US
AS JUST ANOTHER ANTI-DEMOCRATIC MILITARY GOVERNMENT.
TWIS GOVERNMENT IS WORKING HARD TO ARRIVE AT REAL
DEMOCRACY — AND NO* OF TfU LAUGHING STOCK KIND OF
*PF IAS* PTRQNIST PERIOD, EVEN THOUGH TRAT "DEMOCRACY”
BOASTED A CONGRESS AND OTHER TRAPPINGS. IT WAS THAT
GOVERNMEN* WHOSE FIRST ACTS WERE CO-SIGNED BY CUBAN
PRESIDENT DORTICOS AND CHILEAN PRESIDENT ALLEMDEJ
TTS LATER DAYS WERE CHARACTERIZED BY DISORDER AND
KIDNAPPINGS. NOW !//E nAVE NO HUNGER, RACE PROBLEMS OR
PPRTOUS CRIM?. "rfE WANT TO 9E CONSIDERED AS A SERIOUS

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