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ice operations.

Manuel Rallis ('Beto');

Carlos A. Alvarez (Luis );

Susana Lobosco ('Marta');

Norma Espindola ("Valeria');

- 10:00 VidE Julia N. Veniaglo ('Lita');

Maria G. Mendez ('la Gorda'):

Julio Ramos ('Lito');

Ingrid Rorrf:

Raul Rodriguez ('Rolo').

Jaentined.

cure contact witn them. On Thursday 22 May the Argentinian federal police summ- -oned the press to announce a spectacular haul - the arr. est of 12 revolutionary Marxist militants, members of a "subversive group controlled from Paris by the Fourth International', and the death of two others in simultaneous polThe arrested comrades are, according to articles in the Argentinian press which largely echoed the police declaraPaolo Paranagua ('Saul'), of Brazilian nationality;

Flavio Koutzii ('Rene'), of Brazilian nationality;

Maria Regina Pilla ('la Negra'), of Brazilian nationality;

The two killed were, according to the Argentinian press David Armando Laniado ('Eddy') and 'Ramon', so far unDetained for nearly a fortnight before the police officially announced that they were being held, we can be sure that these comrades have undergone considerable brutality and torture. So far no lawyer and no relative has been allowed Unis situation win continue unt no judge will agree to take on the case....

oroducea in une Dress lustro in Argentina in 1971.

guilty under the military dictatorship for the same thing.

iculty, trying to play the nationalist tune to the limits of with "foreign interference' is an old trick.

In each case this 'international plot' has been denounced.

chauvinistic nationalism of Lopez Rega's bully-boys.

These are the methods currently used under the constitu tonal regime or Isabel reron. in tnis instance they are part icularly disturbing in light of the charges which have been drawn up against the comrades by the police and freely reThey were supposedly responsible foi the kidnapping and death of the Fiat director Oberdan SalThe problem for the prosecu tion is that other militants have already been tried and found Besides other charges of the same kind, what most interests the Argentinian torturers is the international aspect of nationalist convictions of the comrades have been more than enough to encourage embellishments about international con spiracies and a 'plot hatched abroad'. For a regime in diff.

chauvinism, to deliberately confuse militant internationalism Nor is this the first attempt by the Argentinian police in this direction. A month ago they anemunced with the same publicity the arrest of 27 Uruguayan militants belonging to the Junta of Revolutionary Co-ordination (which brings to gether the Chilean MIR, the Bolivian ELN, the Tupamaros, and the PRT-ERP in Argentina). Since then another dozen militants of the Junta, also Uruguayans, have been pulled in.

But internationanst mutants will not be taken in oy the

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committee red weekly 19 june 1975 spain