NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Letelier Hearing Shifts to Washington
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A bond hearing for a suspect in the 1976 assassination of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier will be moved to Washington, D.C., a federal magistrate in West Palm Beach, Fla., ruled. Virgilio Paz Romero, 39, is being held on charges that he detonated the bomb that killed Letelier. U.S. Magistrate Ann E. Vitunac agreed to let the case move to Washington, where Paz has an attorney. Paz, a Cuban-American, was arrested without resistance Tuesday by the FBI in Boynton Beach, Fla.
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