Patt Derian: human rights crusader.

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A brief look at Patricia M. Derian, who served as Undersecretary of State for Human Rights under President Jimmy Carter from the creation of the post in August 1977 until Reagan took office in 1981 (and tried to replace her with an man, Ernest Lefever, who not only believed the post should be abolished; but that there should be no human rights policy at all).

Today is also the 40th anniversary of the last military coup in Argentina, a regime whose Dirty War Derian did so much to mitigate and in fact, by 1980, effectively end.