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by peaceful and honorable means, viola emphasized
that Argentina wants a peaceful solution and not a
confrontation and indicated that the recent troop move­
ments were carefully controlled so as not to place
them close enough to the border where "temptations"
could cause an incident. Viola again stressed the
defensive nature of the troop deployments and made
the suggestion that, during the negotiating or mediation
period, there should be a mutual freeze on troop move­
ments or even perhaps a withdrawl. (Buenos Aires 9361,
PSN 24704, 24706)

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