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£.. THE BRAZILIAN DELEGATE, ARCHBISHOP TEOTONI DOS
SANTOS, PROPOSE!) THAT THE CONFERENCE PASS A RESOLUTION.
WHICH WOULD URGE THE US TO GRANT GENERAL AMNESTY - TO
ALL UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS. ARCHBISHOP DOS SANTOS ARGUED
TEAT BY MAKING COMMON CAUSE WITH THE MILLIONS OF
UNDOUCMINTED ALIENS RESIDING IN‘'THE UNITED STATES, THE
ASSOCIATION COULI) BEGIN BUILDING THE FOUNDATIONS OF A
POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE PRESSURE GROUP. THE RESOLUTION
WAS NOT ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE, BUT W5 ANTICIPATE, -
THAT THE IDEA WILL SURFACE AGAIN. . ; . .

6. IN THE LATE AFTERNOON, PRESIDENT ROIDQS WHO IN HIS
WELCOMING SPEECH EXPRESSED HIS1"HOPE THAT IF THE
DELEGATES FOUND GROUNDS FOR CRITICISM IN ECUADOR
THEY WOULD NOT HESITATE TO DO SO, GOT HIS WISH. SOME
SIX ECUADOREAN CITIZENS, REPRESENTING VARIOUS NATIONAL
UNIONS, THE PEASANTS' ORGANIZATION AND PROVINCIAL
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEES, ROSE TO DENOUNCE HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS IN ECUADOR. THE PRIMARY FOCUS'OF THEIR
DENUNCIATIONS WAS ECUADOR'S NATIONAL SECURITY LAW, WHICH
PERMITS THE TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUIONAL '
GUARANTEES. PRESIDENT ROLDOS SPOKE ON THE CONTINUING
NEED FOR THIS LAW SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, AND THE...CONFERENCE
DELEGATES, WHO REPEATEDLY LAUDED ROLDOS, DID NOT- PASS
ANY RESOLUTIONS CONDEMNING THE LAW. ECUADOR WAS ALSO
CITED FOR VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN AND LABOR RIGHTS DURING
TEE RECENT TRANSPORT WORKERS STRIKE. OTHER ECUADOREANS
SPEAKERS CASTIGATED THE SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR LINGUISTICS
•(5IL), A PROTESTANT MISSIONARY GROUP WHICH WORKS IN

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