The World - News from July 28, 1989

Argentina’s Peronist government will pardon more than 300 army officers who were involved in three recent military rebellions, a Defense Ministry source said. The source said hundreds of junior officers had faced discharges. The uprisings took place in April, 1987, January, 1988 and December, 1988. Nationalist officers staged the rebellions to press the government to stop trials against military personnel accused of human rights abuses committed in the 1970s “dirty war” against guerrillas. Defense Minister Italo Luder appeared to confirm the government’s leniency toward the lower-ranked dissidents, saying they “were given minor disciplinary penalties and were ordered back to their postings.”