Word: human
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...pronounced" in the rancorous debate in the U.S. over the treaty "will have a very deep impact on Latin America." During dinner that night, Pérez, who heads one of South America's two democracies (the other: Colombia), praised Carter's support of nuclear nonproliferation and human rights. But he also pressed for U.S. actions to match Carter's words...
Carter tried to downplay differences on arriving at his next stop, Brasilia, the futuristic capital of Brazil. Its ruling generals angrily canceled military and foreign aid agreements with the U.S. last year after the Administration criticized the country's record on human rights. Also, Brazil resents U.S. opposition to its plans to buy nuclear reactors from West Germany. At the airport, Carter set an up beat tone for his visit by describing Brazil; the world's seventh most populous nation, as a "truly great power." In a cool but polite welcoming statement, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel hoped that...
...public, however, Carter strongly reaffirmed his commitment to human rights. Asked by a local newsman to comment on the Brazilian government's insistence that human rights are an internal matter, Carter said at a Brasilia press conference: "We believe this is an interational problem, that the focusing of world attention and world pressure on us and other countries is a very beneficial factor." But he ducked when a Brazilian newsman asked his opinion of Brazil's system of selecting national leaders by party congresses rather than popular elections. Said he: "I'm not here to tell...
Later the members of Brazil's National Congress (which Geisel had closed for two weeks in 1977) applauded Carter after he made another endorsement of human rights. Federal Deputy Erasmo Martins Pedro, leader of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement, hailed Carter's views as "a response to the most profound demands of ethical consciousness and not of political conveniences dictated by the international situation...
...world where there are immutable laws of action and response, where figures line up and yield answers without argument, without any need for cajolery and bourbon. Much of his trouble in the mystical arena of political leadership arises when he tries to apply these bloodless principles to human power and pride...