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DEPARTMENT PASS ALL AHA POSTS .

'pv PRESIDENT ROLDOS ADDRESSED THE EVENING SESSION .-OF
1 i.£ CONFERENCE, IN A SHORT WELCOME,.HE EXPRESSED HIS HOP IA f
THE MEETING WOULD BE PRODUCTIVE' AND If THERE PE RE ANT
CRITIC ISMS O f ECUADOR, 7HI .DELEGATES WOULD NOT HESITATE
TO DISCUSS THEM. , »

8. AN INDICATION OF TSI ONE-SIDEDNESS OF THE CONFERENCE
WAS CARRIED IN EL TIEMPO ON AUGUST 12. ARGENTINE, JORGE
CESASSET , CLAIMED THAT EE WAS .EXPELLED FSOMTHS SEMINAS
WREN HE OBJECTED TO FORMER PRESIDENT HECTOR CAMPORA'S
PRESENCE ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE EX-PRESIDENT CREATED
AND DIRECTED A BAND OF ASSASSINS THAT EXECUTED -THOUSANDS
OF ARGENTINES. CESARSXY ALLEGED THAT A SECOND REASON FOR
HIS EPULSION WAS BIS' DESIRE TO REMIND THE ASSEMBLY OF
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS TAXING PLACE IN CUBA.
CISARSKY CHARGED .THAT THE ASSEMBLY'S OBJECTIVE IS TO
CONDEMN HUMAM RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF ONE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
AND OVERLOOK THOSE OF OTHER IDEOLOGIES. CSSARSKY'S
NAME DOES NOT APPEAR ON, ANY OF THE PUBLISHED LISTS OF
INVITEES, THUS, OUR INITIAL ASSUMPTION IS THAT' HE 3IMPLY
SHOWED UP AT THE CONFEREMCF. , '

I-. THE CONFERENCE HAS RECEIVED WIDESPREAD PUBLICITY.
PARTICULARLY IMPRESSIVE WAS AN EL" COMERCIO EDITORIAL
WHICH JUSTIFIED THE CREATION OF k NEW .HUMAN EIGHTS
ORGANIZATION 0 THE BASIS THAT LISTING ONES HAD BEEN
DISCREDITED BY EXTREMISTS'WHO HAD CO-OPTED THEM. TH1
.EDITORIAL NOTED TEAT HUMAN RIGHT?. ARE'OBSERVED ONLY IN
DEMOCRATICALLY GOVERNED COUNTRIES, AMD -W.W. IS ED

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