The World - News from Dec. 24, 1986
The Argentine Congress gave final legislative approval to a bill limiting new trials for atrocities committed during military rule in the late 1970s. The House of Deputies, Argentina’s lower house, approved the measure on a 126-16 vote. Under its provisions, military and police officials not formally indicted within 60 days of its passage cannot be tried on kidnaping, torture, murder or other charges related to the armed forces’ anti-subversion campaign, known as the “dirty war.” The action, which followed Senate approval a day earlier, sparked a window-smashing rampage by hundreds of foes of the measure.
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