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2. CHARGE DELIVERED PRESIDENT'S LETTER TO GENERAL VIOLA
OCTOBER 8 (REF A}. GENERAL VIOLA EXPRESSED HIS PROFOUND LtVnVvu
APPRECIATION FOR THE PRESIDENT'S THOUGHTS. HE STATED
THAT HE WOULD OF COURSE BE REPLYING IN WRITING. IN THE DECLASSIFIED -
MEANTIME HE WOULD WISH TO SAY THAT HE FULLY RECIPROCATED E.O. 13526 r L
THE PRESIDENT'S BELIEF IN THE IMPORTANCE OF STRENGTHENING M
US-ARGENTINE RELATIONS. "MY GOVERNMENT", HE SAID, "WILL
SEEK TO MAKE US-ARGENTINE RELATIONS AS PRODUCTIVE AS
POSSIBLE. HE RETURNED TO THIS THEME AT VARIOUS POINTS NARA_. fe -frf____Date
IN THE CONVERSATION STATING, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT IT IS HIS
(BELIEF THAT THE CURRENT ISSUES BETWEEN ARGENTINA, WHICH Authority
IN AN EARLIER MEETING HE HAD ENUMERATED AS BEING BOLIVIA,
■ GRAINS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND NUC.LEAR MATTERS, ARE THE PRO­
DUCT OF PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND WILL "ONE WAT OR ANOTHER"
BE REOLVED. THERE WERE NO DIFFERENCES ON BASIC
INTERESTS. HE SAID, ALSO, THAT HONESTY AND FRANKNESS .
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