The World - News from Dec. 30, 1988
The State Department expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with El Salvador’s government for deciding against the extradition of a former air force captain who was arrested last year in Miami in the investigation of the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. El Salvador withdrew its request for the extradition of Alvaro Saravia after the Central American country’s Supreme Court ruled last week that there were no grounds for arresting him on charges he had violated his visa and that the extradition request itself was illegal. Romero, an outspoken critic of rightist death squads, was killed March 24, 1980.
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