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Wherever she went, she listened carefully-and urged heads of state and their minions to express themselves freely. "You can be blunt," she would say. "Go ahead, that's what I'm here for." Throughout her 13-day tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, Rosalynn Carter managed to establish a frank rapport with her hosts. She achieved her goal of convincing top leaders that President Carter wants to improve long-neglected relations with Latin nations...
...trip wore on, Rosalynn was increasingly taxed - both mentally and physically. In Quito, the 9,350-ft.-high capital of Ecuador, she needed two doses of oxygen to get over the effects of the altitude. She calmly informed members of the ruling military triumvirate that the U.S. was not likely to lift trade restrictions imposed after Ecuador raised its oil prices along with other OPEC members...
Later, during talks with other officials in the Legislative Palace, she could hear the shouts of between 100 and 150 students yelling "Yankee imperialism!" and "Imperialist Rosalynn Carter!" A couple of Molotov cocktails were thrown and the police fired some tear gas, but the demonstrators got no closer than 100 yds. away from her motorcade and evidently had no intention of threatening her personally...
After arriving in Peru, Rosalynn met privately with President Francisco Morales Bermúdez for almost three hours. She gently attempted to persuade her new hosts to slow the pace of the military buildup that had alarmed the Ecuadorians. This week she faces her sternest test-a three-day visit to Brazil, where the military dictatorship was outraged first by her husband's opposition to its plans to buy nuclear-fuel facilities from West Germany, and then by a State Department report citing human rights violations in Brazil...
Reports Cloud: "Rosalynn Carter has shown herself to be intelligent, tough and understanding, and her trip clearly has been worthwhile. But follow-through will be necessary if the benefits are to be anything more than temporary. At almost every stop, Mrs. Carter was given an invitation for the President to visit soon. There seemed to be a message in that: 'We like and are impressed with your wife, Mr. President. She has made a good start. Now it is time to negotiate seriously...