Word: videla
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...Argentine, I am proud of the verdict against General Jorge Videla and company. However, I believe that the sentences were very mild. This trial is unique and set a precedent that should be noted by the other dictators in Latin America. Juan M. Cutri Arcadia, Calif. Mickey in France...
...INDICTED. JORGE VIDELA, 75, former Argentine dictator, for participating with five other South American despots, including Chile's Augusto Pinochet, in a scheme to kill leftist opponents; in Buenos Aires. Videla's junta sized power in a 1976 coup, and from then until 1981 collaborated with the other governments to hunt political exiles in their own countries. His regime is linked to the deaths of up to 30,000. SENTENCED. KHALFAN KHAMIS MOHAMED, 27, to life in prison for making explosives used to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998, killing 11 people; in New York. The same jury...