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...will. United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young toured seven island countries in the Caribbean, as well as Mexico, Costa Rica and Venezuela, on a twelve-day mission designed to signal increased U.S. concern for the long-neglected area. At the same time, Assistant Secretary of State Terence Todman and Patricia Derian, State's Coordinator for Human Rights, set out on separate South American missions, while State Department Counselor Matthew Nimetz went to Mexico City. Meanwhile, Senator Frank Church, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accepted a longstanding invitation from Premier Fidel Castro to visit Cuba...
...military assistance rather than agree to prepare "report cards" for Washington on human rights. The Administration hopes to keep relations from deteriorating further-without, however, backing off on human rights entirely. Thus Todman was to shore up relations with the continent's right-wing military regimes, while Derian would press Carter's human rights campaign with civic leaders and government officials. In what was seen as an important move to improve relations with Washington, Chile's President Augusto Pinochet announced late last week that he was disbanding the country's notorious secret police agency, DINA...
...vagueness of Finch's proposals for attracting industry to Mississippi by showing it off to "the 25 top executives" has given some of his supporters second thoughts. "He doesn't seem to have a definite program you can judge," complains Patt Derian, a leader of the Mississippi Democrats' liberal wing. Moreover, Finch has turned off much of the state's conservative press by refusing to hold press conferences and declining to appear on TV panels unless certain "obnoxious" reporters are kept...
...Derian emphasized in an interview last night that the report should not be regarded as a prediction of the future but as an assessment of the present situation...
...study, which will appear in the upcoming issue of Technology Review, a journal published at MIT, was co-authored by Irwin C. Bupp, research fellow in Business Administration at the Business School, and Jean-Claude Derian, Marie Poule Domsimoni and Robert Treitel of the Center for Policy Alternatives of MIT's School of Engineering...