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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...
Tempering Timerman...
...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...
...tragedy of Timerman's ordeal is more than his personal anguish. The Jewish community of Argentina and others should recognize this fact. The ovens of anti-Semitism may be waiting again, but no Jew will ever dig his own grave or walk placidly into those ovens...
Although I do not justify indiscriminate violence from the right or left, I do regret that Timerman is carrying his personal vengeance to the point of forgetting that Argentina has been and is a haven to thousands of Jews. They are prospering physically, emotionally, intellectually and economically...