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Rene Edmundo Valdivieso, secretary of the Martial Court, released the ruling from the three-member appellate tribunal. It said the killings were covered by the amnesty program adopted under terms of the Central American peace plan adopted in August...
Their case went to the Martial Court after the federal attorney general's office appealed the decision of a military judge who ordered them released in November...
...decision, the Martial Court said the shootings were "an essentially political crime. The goal of (the rebels) was a military objective. It was an act of terrorism," Valdivieso read the ruling to reporters...
Politically, the new President is expected to follow through with the three major initiatives prepared in the final years of the Chiang regime. The first of these steps, the lifting of martial law, was accomplished last year. The second, permitting opposition political parties, was effectively taken with the formation in 1986 of the liberal Democratic Progressive Party, which is expected to be granted full legal rights later this year. More problematic is the goal of reorganizing the country's three legislative bodies. Lee's need to play consensus politics may prevent him from moving rapidly on that and other unfinished...
...robust adventure and romantic misalliance, all drawn in the scrumptious Sunday- funnies style of Milton Caniff. And the three volumes titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (First Publishing; $9.95 each) sport with the whole genre, portraying a quartet of Testudinatas, trained by a wise rat in the refinements of Japanese martial arts, as they swing through various U.S. metropolitan areas righting wrongs and creating mischief...