The World - News from Feb. 14, 1989

Argentine soldiers repelled an attack by an unidentified armed band on a provincial army barracks in the town of Rio Cuarto, 450 miles northeast of Buenos Aires, an army spokesman said. “We presume it was a left-wing group, although it has not been positively identified,” he added. The spokesman could give no further details on the group, which fled after a heavy exchange of gunfire in which one soldier was wounded at the 3rd Army Command barracks. On Jan. 23, a leftist guerrilla group seized La Tablada army barracks on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and held it for 30 hours before surrendering.