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14. U.S. LACE 07 APPRECIATION IS NOT UNDERSTANDABLE
TO THE AR&ENTINE "MAN ON THE STREET," WHEN HE LEARNS
70R EXAMPLE THAT TOU WANTED TO USE US TO TAXE IN THE
SHAH 07 IRAN. GOVERNMENTS CHANCE, BUT ARGENTINES
REMEMBER ALL THESE PROBLEMS.

15. 70R THIS REASON, PASTOR CONTINUED, COA MUST ASX
NOW 70R PROPOUND CHANCES IN U.S. ATTITUDES TOWARD US,
PASTOR SAID. AND NOT ONLY MUST ATTITUDES TOWARD ‘ARGENTINA
BE CHANCED, BUT ATTITUDES .TOWARD MOST 07 LAT}N AMERICA.
THESE CHANCES 07 ATTITUDES IN POLICI H0PE7ULLY WILL BE
REELECTED AT THE WHITE HOUSE, IN THE CONCRESS( AT INTER­
NATIONAL MEETINGS. PASTOR ASrEP THAT THE 0.S. STqP PWlSSlNfl
ARCENTINA SO HARD fN NUCLEAR AFFAIRS ("IN RESPONSE TtTWHTCH ¥E
trm^--fgTwgTT1tB BurnMMUHnTMfi twat tri: POSTPONE A TRIP TO
C THTT-ggyiET TTNTON HE PT.ANS TO MAXE LATER THIS TEfiFT; ~
16. (AT THIS POINT PASTOR TOUCHED ON SEVERAL OTHER
SPECI7IC POSSIBLE ACTIONS BY THE UNITED STATES, WHICH
HE DEVELOPED MORE BULLY THE 70LL0WINC DAY. THEY ARE
RECORDED IN THAT CONVERSATION.)
17 PASTOR THEN ADDED: AND YOU MUST NOT CATESORIZE U$
AS JUST ANOTHER ANTI-DEMOCRATIC MILITARY GOVERNMENT.
THIS GOVERNMENT IS WORKING HARD TO ARRIVE AT REAL .
DEMOCRACY — AND NOT OF THE LAUGHING STOCK KIND OF
THE LAST PERONIST PERIOD, EVEN THOUGH THAT "DEMOCRACY"
BOASTED A CONGRESS AND OTHER TRAPPINGS. IT WAS THAT
GOVERNMENT WHOSE FIRST ACTS WERE CO-SIGNED BY CUBAN -
PRESIDENT DORTICOS AND CHILEAN PRESIDENT ALLENSI?
ITS LATER DAYS WERE CHARACTERIZED BY DISORDER AND
Kidnappings, now we have no hunger, race problems or
SERIOUS CRIME. "WE WANT TO BE CONSIDERED AS i( SERIOUS

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