Volume 23, Number 17 · October 28, 1976
Terror in Argentina
By Mort Rosenblum
A few days before I left Argentina a month ago, a friend appeared, too shaken to speak coherently, and told me that the girl he was about to marry had been abducted from her apartment. From witnesses' accounts and from the refusal of the local police to make any investigation, it was obvious she had been taken away by one of the government security units which has free license to conduct such 'operations' against suspected extremists. Neither my friend nor his fiancée had anything at all to do with politics. Her mother, who was also seized, had been active in a leftist party, but she was certainly no terrorist. The girl's relatives filed a habeas corpus petition and hounded whatever government and military offices they could but were told there was no sign of her or her mother.
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