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No the year, I'm trying to think when the year was. It seems to me it was later than '70.
In other words, Campora and Peron were back?
Yeah.
So it was around '74, or '73.
And they were worried about kidnaping from the left wing guerillas.
Well, everybody was kidnaping everybody.
How did that tour effect coverage? If it did?
Well, one little side aspect of it was the last stop in Panama when the strongman, Tarrijos, invited us out to the island that he lives on.
He, Tarrijos, was the head of the National Guard then. He was the head man for years in Panama, very interesting person too. And we went out to his island in a helicopter and spent the night there talking endlessly with
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