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- BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Former
US secretary of State Henry Kissinger will
- refuse to testify in legal action against those responsible
for a plan
- to exterminate the political opposition in Latin America
in the 1970s
- and 1980s, court sources said Thursday.
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- They said the intent to refuse to testify was communicated
to Argentine
- justice officials by the US Justice Department and would
be transmitted
- to federal prosecutors investigating the disappearance,
torture and
- deaths of political dissidents by Latin dictators of
the time.
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- Kissinger, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for
his role in
- negotiating a ceasefire with communist Vietnam, was secretary
of state
- under President Richard Nixon and his successor, Gerald
Ford, after
- Nixon's resignation.
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- Argentinian prosecutors want to question Kissinger about
his knowledge
- of those responsible for the so-called "Condor Plan,"
the collaborative
- repressive operations of dictators in South America in
the 1970s and
- 1980s.
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- Documents recently uncovered by the Paraguayan People's
Defender's
- Office, or ombudsman, reportedly reveal ties among the
secret services
- of past dictators in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile,
Paraguay and Uruguay.
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