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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 25, 1982
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A British vessel sailing off the Argentine coast early this year
is reported to have discovered� large number of skeletons lying
on the sea bed with their feet encased in concrete•.•.Western
diplomat�were told of a British vessel,-on a routine voyage,
anchoring off the Argentine coast some weeks before the Falklands
erisis erupted. When the ship was ready to resume sailing, it
found its anchor had become fouled and could not be raised.
A diver who went down to deal with the obstruction discovered
what was described as "a sea of skeletons." All were weighed
down with concrete blocks or1their feet and some of the victims
appeared to have been decapitated••••According to the version now
circulating in Washington, the victims appeared first to have
been made to walk into wet concrete and then to have been killed.
The bodies were then apparently dumped into the sea, possibly
from an aircraft.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a body set up by
The Organisation of American States) investigated allegations
against the Buenos Aires regime and issued a 260-page report on
its findings last year. It gave considerable detail about cases
of people who had disappeared without trace since the military
junta took power six years ago.
So much for this Special Report. Yesterday Mrs. Thatcher gave the most
logical, sound-minded speech yet on the subject of nuclear weapons and the
arms race. Perhaps more about that next time.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau