The World : Argentine Base Siege Ends

At La Tablada army base near Buenos Aires, remnants of an armed group surrendered to Argentine troops after a one-day battle. In a nationwide television address, President Raul Alfonsin said 28 raiders were killed and 14 captured by government troops. Seven soldiers and one policeman were killed in the fighting, he said, and 63 other soldiers and police officers were wounded. He called the rebels “ultra-leftists” and said that fighting political subversion is “the last test of my government.” Neither the identity of the attackers nor their motive was clear, however. The assault began about dawn on Monday, and shooting continued more than 27 hours later, until 13 men and a woman with their arms raised in surrender emerged from the shell of a building that had been blasted by tanks.