General’s Extradition Upheld
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court justice today refused to block the extradition of a former Argentine general charged with 39 murders in his country’s so-called “dirty war†against suspected subversives in the 1970s.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by denying an emergency request, cleared the way for the return of Carlos G. Suarez-Mason to Argentina from San Francisco, where he is in the custody of federal marshals. He had sought to stay in this country while a federal appeals court studies his case.
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