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Heiskell:

No the year, I'm trying to think when the year was. It seems to me it was later than '70.

Q:

In other words, Campora and Peron were back?

Heiskell:

Yeah.

Q:

So it was around '74, or '73.

Heiskell:

Yeah.

Q:

And they were worried about kidnaping from the left wing guerillas.

Heiskell:

Well, everybody was kidnaping everybody.

Q:

How did that tour effect coverage? If it did?

Heiskell:

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.

Heiskell:

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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