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...court decision led to the immediate release of the three officers, along with scores of others who were being held on human rights charges. Camps, who was convicted last December, was not affected by the ruling, and will continue serving a 25-year sentence. Among the five former junta leaders already convicted are ex-President Jorge Rafael Videla and a onetime navy chief, Admiral Emilio Massera, both of whom are serving life terms...
...Mayo, an organization of parents whose sons and daughters disappeared: "Obviously there was an agreement with the military. I don't think the government is with the people. It's like a dictatorship. Everything is fixed." Even Federal Prosecutor Julio Cesar Strassera, who led the government case against junta leaders two years ago, was quoted by a Spanish newspaper as calling the law an "error" and an "absurdity," adding that "society knows perfectly well what happened during those years." In Buenos Aires, a newspaper cartoon carried the caustic caption "To err is human, to forgive is divine, to approve...
Fortunately, in the case of Argentina at least, the United States has begun to overcome its past record. Just a few years ago, when a military junta controlled Argentina and carried out the bloody "dirty war" against Argentinian civilians, the United States government vigorously backed the junta. Sunday, however, it was these very military officers whose rebellion was so successfully quelled...
...interview with TIME, Enrile asserted that long before the issue of elections even arose, reformers within the military were plotting to topple Marcos (see box). Their plan to install a military junta crumbled, however, with Aquino's electoral success. Enrile said he then offered her military backing and proposed a Cabinet that would in effect form a coalition between Aquino and the military. Enrile charges that the "covenant" has been broken. Aquino supporters say the agreement never existed. Enrile maintains now, as then, that he is not looking to be President. "I have earned my place in history," he says...
...honor of his continued tenure. In full-page newspaper ads the general dubbed the long- planned celebration, seen as a kickoff of his campaign for the presidency in 1989, "The First Day of the Future." Under the 1980 constitution drawn up by Pinochet, Chile's four-man military junta will choose a single presidential candidate, who will then run in a yes-or-no national plebiscite and, if the electorate endorses him, serve until 1997. Three of the four junta members have so far avoided naming Pinochet as their choice. The aim of last week's well-orchestrated rally...