The World - News from Sept. 4, 1988
A federal prosecutor recommended that members of a former ruling junta in Argentina, including former President Leopoldo F. Galtieri, be imprisoned for from 15 to 20 years for starting the 1982 Falklands War. Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo told a federal appeals court that Gen. Galtieri, Adm. Jorge I. Anaya and Gen. Basilio Lami Dozo, the air force commander, are responsible for the loss to Britain of the 74-day war and for the deaths of 712 Argentine servicemen. In May, 1986, the Armed Forces Supreme Council convicted all three of misconduct in commanding the three military branches in the war, which began after Argentine forces invaded the disputed islands. All three convictions had been appealed.
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