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- <text id=94TT1176>
- <title>
- Sep. 05, 1994: Died:Ramon J. Camps
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Sep. 05, 1994 Ready to Talk Now?:Castro
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 21
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- <p> DIED. RAMON J. CAMPS, 67, retired Argentine army general and
- former chief of the Buenos Aires police, notorious for his role
- in the 1976-83 dictatorship's "dirty war" against suspected
- leftists; of prostate cancer; in Buenos Aires. Camps, who claimed
- responsibility for as many as 5,000 desaparecidos (disappeared
- ones) during his tenure as police chief, was sentenced to 25
- years in prison for human-rights abuses in 1986 but later received
- a full pardon from President Carlos Saul Menem.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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