Nation in Brief / PUERTO RICO : Prisoners to Discuss Clemency Offer

Sixteen Puerto Ricans jailed on sedition and weapons convictions will hold a conference call Wednesday to decide whether to accept President Clinton’s offer of clemency, supporters in San Juan said. The Puerto Rican Pro Human Rights Committee, which has led efforts to free the activists, said the prisoners would probably announce their decision before the deadline of 5 p.m. Friday. The prisoners are members of the Armed Forces for National Liberation and the Macheteros, pro-independence groups that from 1974 to 1983 staged more than 130 bomb attacks in the United States. The attacks killed six people and injured dozens.