The Nation - News from Sept. 6, 1988
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Three years after their arrests, seven people linked to a Puerto Rican terrorist group go on trial this week in Hartford, Conn., in the $7-million Wells Fargo robbery--the second largest in U.S. history. Jury selection begins today in U.S. District Court and is expected to last one to three weeks, according to prosecutors. The government contends that six of the seven defendants are salaried members of a militant nationalist group known as Los Macheteros, which has claimed responsibility for the 1983 robbery of a Wells Fargo depot.
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