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...their military rank and sentenced to life imprisonment. Three co-defendants, including Roberto Viola, 61, who succeeded Videla as President, were found guilty of lesser charges, deprived of military rank and given sentences ranging from 4 1/2 to 17 years. The remaining four officers--among them General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who as President from 1981 to 1982 initiated the ill-fated war with Britain over the Falkland Islands--were acquitted...
...court's historic decision disappointed human rights activists, who had hoped for harsher sentences that would ease the pain suffered by families and friends of the estimated 9,000 people who disappeared during the dirty war. After Arslanian read the decision acquitting Galtieri and the others, Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, angrily donned a white kerchief embroidered with the human rights group's mournful motto, MAY THE DISAPPEARED APPEAR ALIVE. When De Bonafini refused to remove the offending garment, the judge ordered her to leave the courtroom. "I had no other...
...union leaders a still undetermined wage increase early next year to make up for lost purchasing power. Businessmen are clamoring for similar price relief. The trials next year of the 300 lower-ranking officers accused of crimes in the dirty war--and a separate trial, now under way, of Galtieri and two other junta members for mismanaging the Falklands war--will stir up more debate over who bears the ultimate responsibility for the ghosts of the past. The trials may also further strain the patience of the military, which may be weakened but is still a potentially powerful force...
Nearly 500 spectators crowded into the courtroom for this first appearance of the once powerful junta members, among them Jorge Videla and Leopoldo Galtieri, who ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1982. The nine generals contend that whatever abuses occurred during their time in office were the result of their antiterrorist campaign to save the country from a leftist takeover. Said Prosecutor Julio Strassera: "Accompanying me in this demand for justice are more than 9,000 desaparecidos (those who disappeared) who have left their silent but no less eloquent damning testimony." A verdict is expected by the end of the year...
Among the defendants charged with crimes including illegal arrests, torture and murder: ex-Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopold Galtieri, the architect of Argentina's disastrous war with Britain for control of the Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas. Last week, Alfonsin said the trial was "of such importance that in my view it will end 50 years of democratic frustration and national decadence...