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...Jacobo Timerman ∙ Within...
Carter denounced "the misguided and radical new policies of the Department of Interior" as a "serious threat to the future of our nation." Finding it "almost unbelievable" that the credibility of tortured Argentine Publisher Jacobo Timerman could be questioned by a member of the Administration, Carter recalled "the good old days when the American Government attacked the torturers and sympathized with the tortured." Finally, he contended that the U.S. was giving the Soviet Union an "unwarranted propaganda advantage" by shunning arms-control talks, and argued that Reagan's approval of large weapons sales was restoring "our former reputation...
While the regime was maneuvering at home, it was severely buffeted by criticism from abroad, stirred up by Newspaper Publisher Jacobo Timerman, a former military prisoner who has revived the terror issue by charging in a U.S. bestseller that Argentina's government is Nazi in nature. A Jew, Timerman has evoked the image of a new Holocaust...
...acrimonious debate over Jacobo Timerman's views [June 22] should not detract attention from the plight of thousands in the jails of Argentina. Quiet diplomacy may suit President Reagan, but we ordinary citizens must call attention to the fact that the detention of many Argentines without charges and for indefinite terms violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Argentina's constitution as well as the conscience of concerned people everywhere...
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman...