Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 Message Text CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 BOGOTA 05430 01 OF 03 110321Z ACTION SS-25 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 026 W ------------------110323Z 032158 65 O 102110Z JUN 77 CORRECTED COPY FOR MRN AND SECTION INFO FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA TO AMEMBASSY CARACAS IMMEDIATE SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2027 WHITE HOUSE IMMEDIATE C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 1 OF 3 BOGOTA 5430 EXDIS C O R R E C T E D C O P Y MRN 5430 VICE 5439 AND SECTION INFO CARACAS FOR ASST SECY TODMAN E O 11652 GDS TAGS CO SNAR ASEC PARM SUBJECT MRS CARTER'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT LOPEZ FOLLOWING IS TELEGRAPHIC MEMO OF CONVERSATION WHICH TOOK PLACE AT PRESIDENTIAL PALACE FROM 11 AM TO 12 15 ON JUNE 10 MEMO IS SUBJECT T O APPROVAL BY MRS CARTER'S PARTY PARTICIPANTS WERE PRESIDENT LOPEZ FOREIGN MINISTER LIEVANO MRS CARTER ASST SECY TODMAN CHARGE DREXLE R AND MS HOYT AND MR PASTOR 1 AFTER AN EXCHANGE OF GREETINGS PRES LOPEZ NOTED THAT MRS CARTER HAD RECEIVED LETTERS FROM THE OPPOSITION IN BRAZIL DURING HER VISIT TO THAT COUNTRY HE SAID HE HAD OFFERED BOTH BRANCHES OF THE COLOMBIA N CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 BOGOTA 05430 01 OF 03 110321Z COMMUNIST PARTY THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMUNICATE COMPLAINTS TO MRS CARTER BUT THEY HAD DECLINED AND SAID THEY HAD NOT BEEN DELUDED BY THE USG POSITION ON HUMAN RIGHTS MRS CARTER COMMENTED THAT OF COURSE THE COLOMBIAN RECORD ON HUMAN RIGHTS WAS VERY GOOD 2 MRS CARTER OUTLINED FOR LOPEZ THE BACKGROUND TO HER TRIP AND PRESIDENT CARTER'S OUTLOOK TOWARDS LATIN AMERICA SHE UNDERLINED THE Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 PRESIDENT'S INTEREST IN WORKING CLOSELY WITH LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS IN COOPERATIVE EFFORTS AIMED AT RESOLVING REGIONAL AND BILATERAL PROBLEMS SHE EXPLAINED THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAD ADOPTED A MORE OPEN APPROACH TO FOREIGN RELATIONS AND WOULD BE GOVERNNED BY THE BELIEF THAT OUR FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS TO REFLECT OUR NATIONAL VALUES WE WERE SEEKING A WIDER PARTICIPATION IN WORLD POLITICAS AS WELL AS BROAD PROGRESS ON A MULTILATERAL BAIS IN HUMAN RIGHTS PRESIDENT CARTER ALSO WANTS TO END THE SPECTRE OF WAR AND REDUCE THE WASTE OF RESOURCES IN ARMAMENTS THE ADMINISTRATION WAS IN PARTICULAR SEEKING WIDER LATIN AMERICAN ADHERENCE TO THE TREATY OF TLATELOLCO AND THE NPT PRESIDENT LOPEZ REMARKED THAT THE USSR HAD ASKED COLOMBIA TO TAKE THE LEAD AMONG OTHER LA NATIONS IN PRESSING BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA TO RATIFY BOTH THESE TREATIES 3 TURNING TO SPECIFIC MEASURES THE ADMINISTRATION HAD ALREADY TAKEN IN FURTHERING ITS LA POLICY OBJECTIVES MRS CARTER CITED THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY NEGOTIATONS SHE COMMENTED THAT SIGNIFICATN PROBLEMS STILL REMAINED BUT THAT THERE HAD ALSO BEEN GOOD PROGRESS AND THAT WE HOPED FOR AN AGREEMENT BY THE END OF THIS SUMMER SHE THANKED LOPEZ FOR THE HELP HE HAD ALREADY RENDERED IN FACILITATING AN AGREEMENT AND ASKED HIM TO IMPRESS UPON TORRIJOS THE NEED FOR REACHING AGREEMENT ON A NEW TREATY BEFORE THE SUMMER WAS OVER LOPEZ SAID HE HAD NOT BEEN IN TOUCH WITH TORRIJOS RECENTLY BUT ADDED THAT HE HIMSELF WAS QUITE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE TREATY NEGOTIATIONS RETITERATING COMMENTS HE HAD MADE EARLIER TO AMBASSADORS CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 BOGOTA 05430 01 OF 03 110321Z BUNKER AND LINOWITZ LOPEZ SAID THAT ONLY THE USG WAS IN A POISITON T O GUARANTEE THE SECURITY AND NETURALITY OF THE CANAL FOR THE OTHER NATIONS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE HE SAID HE HAD TOLD TORRIJOS THAT PANAMA SHOULD POSSESS THE AREA'S RESOURCES AND THE US SHOULD HOLD THE GUARANTEE 4 REGARDING OUR BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH CUBA MRS CARTER REPORTED THAT PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE BUT PROBLEMS REMAINED SHE UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FACT THAT WE AT LEAST HAD OPENED A DIALOGUE WITH CASTRO LOPEZ CHARACTERIZED CASTRO'S LATEST SPEECH ON RELATIONS WITH THE US AS TRICKY 5 RESUMING HER OUTLINE OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S APPROACH TO FOREIGN RELATIONS MRS CARTER SAID WE WERE ALSO SEEKING BETTER INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS SINCE THOSE EXISTING WERE FORMED AT THE TIME OF WORLD WAR II AND HAD BEEN OVERTAKEN BY SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENTS SHE REITERATED THAT WE WOULD BE CONSULTING Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 CLOSELY WITH LA NATIONS IN DEVELOPING OUR GLOBAL POLICIES AND IN ATTACKING WORLD PROBLEMS LOPEZ COMMENTED THAT IF THERE IS ANY NATIONA WITH WHICH THE US HS NO PROBLEMS IT IS COLOMBIA CONFIDENTIAL NNN CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 BOGOTA 05430 02 OF 03 102312Z ACTION SS-25 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 026 W ------------------110234Z 028352 62 O 102110Z JUN 77 FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA TO AMEMBASSY CARACAS IMMEDIATE SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2028 WHITE HOUSE IMMEDIATE C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 2 OF 3 BOGOTA 5430 EXDIS CARACAS FOR ASST SECY TODMAN 6 DEVELOPING FURTHER HER EARLIER COMMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MRS CARTER SAID THAT ON HER TRIP SHE HAD ENCMUNTERED A FAR BETTER RESPONSE THAN SHE HAD EXPECTED TO THE ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY SHE SENSED A NEW SPIRIT AND POPULAR INTEREST WITH REGARD TO SAFEGUARDING HUMAN RIGHTS AND SAID THAT IN VIEW OF COLOMBIA'S GOOD EXPERIENCE WE WOULD WELCOME LOPE' SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PROCEED LOPEZ OBSERVED THAT THE CLIMATE FOR FURTHERING THE CAUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS SEEMED GOOD HE COMMENTED THAT MOST GOVERNMENTS IN THE WORLD AND PARTICULARLY IN LATIN AMERICA WERE SUFFERING FROM UNPOPULARITY BECAUSE OF INFLATION AND A NUMBER OF OTHER REASONS IN THE DEMOCRACIES PEOPLE WERE CALLING FOR STRONGER MORE EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT WHEREAS IN THE MILITARY REGIMES THE PEOPLE WANTED DEMOCRACY IN THE LATER NATIONS THE REGIMES WERE BEING FORCED TO PROMISE ELECTIONS AND OTHER CHANGES IN THE NEXT YEARS AHEAD IN ORDER TO CALM THEIR PEOPLE AND THIS CLIMATE IN LOPEZ' VIEW COULD BE PROPITIOUS FOR ADVANCING THE CAUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THOSE COUNTRIES HE CAUTIONED HOWEVER THAT IT WOULD BE HARD AND INADVISABLE FOR THE US TO ACT AS A PROTECTOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN LA PARTICULARLY SINCE THIS WAS REALLY THE COLLECTIVE OBLIGATION OF THE OAS AND UN HE ARGUED CONFIDENTIAL Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 BOGOTA 05430 02 OF 03 102312Z FOR THE DESIGNATION OF A LATIN AMERICAN COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WITHIN THE OAS FRAMEWORK LOPEZ ENVISIONED THE APPOINTMENT OF SOME DISTINGUISED STATESMAN TO FILL THIS ROLE AND THOUGHT IT MIGHT EVEN BE A CANADIAN WHO WOULD HAVE SPECIAL CLAIMS TO OBJECTIVITY HE ADDED THAT THIS OFFICIAL SHOULD NOT BE TERMED A SECRETARY GENERAL BECAUSE THIS TITLE SOUNDED FAR LESS IMPOSING IN SPANISH THAN IN ENGLISH LOPEZ REFERRED TO REFENT MOVES BY SOME SOUTHERN CONE COUNTRIES TO FORM A BLOC COUNTERING US EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY ALLEGING THAT THEY CONSTITUTED INTERVENTION IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION LOPEZ AND LIEVANO INDICATED THAT THESE MOVES WERE STILL UNDER WAY BUT THAT COLOMBIA HAD NOT BEEN WELCOME AS A PARTICIPANT WHEN ASKED WHAT DEMOCRATIC NATIONS MIGHT DO TO COUNTER SUCH MOVES ON ON THE PART OF SOUTHERN CONE NATIONS LOPEZ UNDERLINED THAT BOTH COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA HAD REFUSED TO JOIN IN AND THAT THE GOC AS HE HAD MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY WAS ADVOCATING A COLLECTIVE APPROACH TO SAFEGUARDING HUMAN RIGHTS AND AN IMPARTIAL LATIN AMERICAN COMMISSIONER AS AN OMBUDSMAN 7 TURNING TO THE QUESTION OF NARCOTICS MRS CARTER SAID THE PRESIDENT WAS SERIOUSLY CONCERNED ABOUT DRUG ABUSE AND ACCORDINGLY HAD ESTABLISHED A SPECIAL WHITE HOUSE OFFICE ON THE PROBLEM HEADED BY DR BOURNE WHO WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE CARTERS SHE REMINDED LOPEZ THAT DR BOURNE AND MS FALCO THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPECIAL ADVISER ON NARCOTICS PLANNED TO VISIT COLOMBIA SHORTLY MRS CARTER EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT PRESIDENT LOPEZ WOULD MEET WITH BOURNE AND FALCO TO DISCUSS HOW OUR COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS COULD BE MADE MORE EFFECTIVE LOPEZ STATED THAT THERE WERE FEW THINGS THAT HAD DISAPPOINTED HIM AS MUCH AS HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THE USG WITH REGARD TO NARCOTICS CONTROL HE SAID THE QUESTION WAS WHETHER COLOMBIA WAS CORRUPTING THE US OR VICE VERSA IN THIS CONNECTION HE STRESSED THAT IT WAS AMERICAN MONEY CHANNELS AND AIRCRAFT THAT WERE BEING USED IN CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 BOGOTA 05430 02 OF 03 102312Z NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING INVOLVING COLOMBIAN TERRITORY HE REFERRED TO HIS CONVERSATIONS NEARLY THREE YEARS AGO WITH PRESIDENT FORD AND SECY KISSINGER WHO HE SAID PROMISED TO HELP COLOMBIA WITH THE EQUIPMENT IT NEEDED TO FIGHT THE TRAFFICKERS INCLUDING HELICOPTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS GEAR MUCH TIME HAD ELAPSED SINCE THEN AND WE WERE STILL DEBATING THE TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT TO SUPPLY JUST THREE HELICOPTERS Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 8 MRS CARTER SAID THE ADMINISTRATION RECOGNIZED THE ROLE OF THE AMERICAN FOMESTIC MARKET FTR DRUGS BUT SHE STRESSED THAT IN THIS INTERDEPENDENT WORLD IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONFINE RESPONSIBILITY IN SUCH A MATTER TO ONE COUNTRY SHE WENT ON TO OBSERVE THAT THE NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING HAD HAD A CORRUPTING INFLUENCE ON THE GOC BOTH LOPEZ AND LIEVANO SAID THEY ENTIRELY AGREED WITH MRS CARTER BUT THEY STRESSED THAT THE GOC DOES NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE TRAFFICKERS AND THAT THE PROMISED USG HELP HAD NEVER COME MRS CARTER COMMENTED THAT THE SOURCES OF THIS TRAFFICKING PROBLEM CAN BE FOUND IN BOTH THE US AND COLOMBIA AND THAT WE NEEDED TO WORK TOGETHER LOPEZ OBSERVED THAT WE SHOULD HAVE BEGUN DOING SO THREE YEARS AGO HE WENT ON TO DESCRIBE THE GEOGRAPHICAL FACTORS WHICH FAVORED TRAFFICKING FROM THE NORTHEAST PART OF COLOMBIA HE ADDED THAT RECENTLY DISCOVERED PLANTATIONS FOR GROWING MARIHUANA USED ADVANCED AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY FINANCED BY AMERICANS MRS CARTER REITERATED THAT CORRUPTION WAS LIMITINV THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COLOMBIAN ENFORCEMENT ACTION LOPEZ AGAIN AGREED AND EMPHASIZED THE GOC'S NEED FOR MORE AND BETTER EQUIPMENT MRS CARTER REPEATED THAT SHE HOPED PRESIDENT LOPEZ WOULD MEET WITH BOURNE AND FALCO WHEN THEY VISITED COLOMBIA LOPEZ SAID THE GOC WANTED TO COOPERATE AND FIGHT ALONGSIDE THE US IN THIS BATTLE AGAINST THE TRAFFICKERS 9 MRS CARTER NEXT REGISTERED THE ADMINISTRATION' S CONCERN OVER CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 04 BOGOTA 05430 02 OF 03 102312Z CONFIDENTIAL NNN CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 BOGOTA 05430 03 OF 03 102340Z ACTION SS-25 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 SSO-00 026 W ------------------110237Z 028873 62 O 102116Z JUN 77 FM AMEMBASSY BOGOTA TO AMEMBASSY CARACAS IMMEDIATE Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2031 WHITE HOUSE IMMEDIATE C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 3 OF 3 BOGOTA 5430 EXDIS CARACAS FOR ASST SECY TODMAN AMERICAN PRISONERS LIKE THELEN WHO HAD BEEN HELD IN COLOMBIA FOR VERY LONG PERIODS WITHOUT BEING BROUGHT TO TRIAL SHE RELATED THIS TO OUR CONCERSN ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND UNDERLINED THE INTEREST IN SUCH CASES IN THE US LOPEZ REPLIED THAT HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA ARE PROTECTED BY LAW THAT THE LAWS NEED TO BE ENFORCED BY AN INDEPENDENT JIDICIARY AND THAT THE COLOMBIAN EXECUTIVE BRANCH CANNOT MANIPULATE THE JIDICIAL PROCESS BECAUSE THT WOULD IN FACT BE A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS MRS CARTER REITERATED THE CONCERNS THAT WERE FELT IN THE US WITH REGARD TO PERSONS WHO HAD BEEN HELD SEVERAL YEARS WITHOUT TRIAL LOPEZ ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE WERE DELAY AND BACKLOGS AND SAID THE COLOMBIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD RECENTLY UNDERTAKEN TO TRY TO SPEED UP SOME 8000 PROTRACTED CASES WHICH WERE PENDING TRIAL HE ALSO OBSERVED THAT SUCH BACKLOGS AND JUDICIAL BURDENS WERE A PROBLEM IN OTHER COUNTRIES TOO INCLUDING THE US 10 REGARDING THE STARR KIDNAPPING CASE MRS CARTER EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR THE GOC'S HELP AND CONCERN AND VOICED THE HOPE THAT IT WOULD DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TOWARDS SECURING STARR'S SAFE RELEASE LOPEZ SAID THE GUERRILLAS SEEMED TO BE HOLDING CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 BOGOTA 05430 03 OF 03 102340Z HIM IN THE REMOTE EL PATO AREA AND THAT IF GOC ARVED FORCES TRIED TO RESCUE HIM THERE IT WOULD ENDANGER HIS LIFE HE STRESSED THAT IN SUCH CASES IT WAS ESSENTIAL TO BE PATIENT AND HE EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT STARR'S MOTHER RECOGNIZED THE DANGERS OF TRYING TO FORCE THE ISSUE BY THE USE OF ARMED FORCE MRS CARTER UNDERLINED THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE PEACE CORPS PARTICULARLY SINCE HIS MOTHER HAD ALSO SERVED AS A PC VOLUNTEER 11 MRS CARTER ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY MESSAGES OR THROUGHTS WHICH PRESIDENT LOPEZ WISHED HER TO CONVEY TO PRESIDENT CARTER IN REPLY LOPEZ RAISED THE ISSUE OF TRADE PREFERENCES AND TARIFFS REITERATING THE LIEVANO PLAN FOR A LATIN AMERICAN REGIONAL SYSTEM IN WHICH THE US WOULD FAVOR ITS SOUTHERN NEIGHBORS IN THE HEMISPHERE LOPEZ SAID THE GOC EITHER WANTED BETTER TREATMENT FROM THE US OR HELP IN SECURING EQUAL TREATMENT FOR ALL DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FROM ALL OF THE DEVELOPED NATIONS HE HAD IN MIND THE FACT THAT COLOMBIA SUFFERED Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 22 May 2009 DISCRIMINATION IN TERMS OF MARKET AVAILABILITY FROM THE NATIONS IN THE LOME AGREEMENT AND THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MRS CARTER SAID THE US WANTED TO WORK WITH THE COLOMBIANS VIA THE MTN IN GENEVA TO REDUCE REGIONAL DISCRIMINATION WE THOUGHT THIS FAR BETTER THAN CREATING NEW REGIONAL TRADING SYSTEMS AS ENVISAGED IN THE LIEVANO PLAN LOPEZ OBSERVED THAT THE DEVELOPING NATIONS WERE IN THE MINORITY IN THE MTN AT GENEVA AND THAT IN PARTICULAR THERE WERE ONLY A HANDFUL OF LA NATIONS PARTICIPATING HE WENT ON TO THANK THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION FOR ITS ENLIGHTENED ACTION ON SHOE IMPORTS AND EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT IT WOULD TAKE SIMILAR POSITION IN REGARD TO EFFORTS TO CURTAIL COLOMBIAN CUTFLOWER IMPORTS LOPEZ AND LIEVANO WENT ON TO EXPLAIN THAT THEY DID NOT REGARD AN INCREASE IN COLOMBIAN EXPORTS TO THE US AS A FORM OF INCREASED ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE ON THE US LOPEZ ALSO OBSERVED THAT IF THERE WAS A WORLD WIDE SYSTEM OF PREFERENCE OPEN TO ALL COUNTRIES WHICH FIRST RENOUNCED THE PREFERENCES THEY RECEIVED UNDER CLOSED REGIONAL SYSTEMS THERE WOULD CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 BOGOTA 05430 03 OF 03 102340Z BE A CONTINUING MOVEMENT TOWARDS THE LARTER GLOBAL SYSTEM AND AWAY FROM THE OTHERS 12 LOPEZ ALSO WARNED THAT ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS POLITICAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS THAT WOULD CONFRONT THE US WITHIN THE NEXT FEW YEARS WOULD RESULT FROM THE ANTICIPATED DROP IN COFFEE PRICES HE SAID COLOMBIA HAD TAKEN MEASURES WHICH WOULD MITIGATE THE IMPACT HERE BUT THAT MOST OTHER COFFEE EXPORTING NATIONS HAD NOT DONESO AND HAD PEGGED THEIR INTERNAL PRICES TO THE INTERNATIOAL PRICE THEY THUS FACED SEVERE ECONOMIC DISLOCATIONS UNEMPLOYMENT AND CONSEQUENT POLITICAL DISRUPTION WHEN THE PRICE FALLS AND THE US WOULD HAVE TO COPE ESPECIALLY IN CENTRAL AMERICA WITH THE POLITICAL PROBMEMS THIS CAUSED 13 IN CONCLUSION MRS CARTER STATED THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WAS COMMITTED TO COMPLETE THE PAN AMERICAN HIGHWAY SEGMENT IN COLOMBIA BUT WAS WORIED BY LACK OF PROGRESS IN CURBING HOOF AND MOUTH DISEASE SHE EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT PRES LOPEZ WOULD GIVE THIS PROBLEM HIS PERSONAL ATTENTIN PRES LOPEZ GOOD NATUREDLY TOLD MRS CARTER TO ADVISE HER HUSBAND NOT TO WASTE HIS TIME WORRYIN ABOUT THIS ISSUE LOPEZ SAID HE HAD BEEN LISTENING TO TALK ABOUT COMPETING THE HIGHWAY FOR MANY YEARS BUT THAT MEANNWHILE ONLY THE CONSTRUCTION COST HAS GOME UP HE COMMENTED THAT IT WAS ALL A COMPLICATED PROBLEM WITH MANY CONFLICTING INTERESTS INVOLVED DREXLER Margaret P Grafeld 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