CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Penalty Imposed in Argentine Killings
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A former Argentine general was ordered by a U.S. District Court judge to pay $89 million in damages to victims and relatives of people who were tortured and killed during military rule in the South American nation from 1976 to 1979. Judge Lowell Jensen ordered Carlos Suarez Mason to pay, but the money may never be collected. Lawyers for plaintiffs in three lawsuits have been unable to find Suarez Mason’s rumored wealth. Suarez Mason, who commanded the First Army Corps in Buenos Aires, was arrested in a San Francisco suburb in January, 1987, and extradited to Argentina in May, 1988, to face 37 murder charges, all involving the killing of prisoners by soldiers under his command.
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