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Argentines Thank Carter for Human Rights Efforts

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By Martin AndersenSpecial to the Washington PostOctober 11, 1984BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 10--Jimmy Carter has found in Argentina the praise and official expressions of gratitude for his activist human rights policy that have often eluded him at home. ...In an editorial today entitled "Thank You, Jimmy, the English-language Buenos Aires Herald said, "It was Jimmy Carter's government that did more than any other group of people anywhere for the cause of human rights in Argentina."Argentine President Raul Alfonsin and other top officials have praised the Carter Administration for saving the lives of hundreds of innocent people caught up in the military counter terror. During the Carter years U.S. military aid was reduced to a trickle, and U.S. diplomats were instructed to voice rights concerns to their Argentine counterparts in any meeting anywhere in the world. It was an approach that was sharply criticized by then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan."In our debate Reagan said my rights policy was a sign of weakness, that we should support strong governments," Carter said in an interview today. "When Reagan took office he immediately sent signals to the generals here that they could expect our renewed cooperation and support." ...

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