THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Envoy Queries Argentina's Jacobo Timerman Case
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Dr.
Jorge Aja Espil, theArgen-
tine ambassador to Wash-
ington, has written a note to
his government questioning
the continuing detention of
Jacobo Timerman, was
reported here by Jacob
Kovadloff, director of South
American Affairs for the
American Jewish Commit-
tee.
Kovadloff noted that
April 15 was the second an-
niversary of the arrest of
Timerman, the editor and
publisher of La Opinion.
Timerman, whose news-
paper was seized by the gov-
ernment, is still under
house arrest in his Buenos
Aires apartment even
though the Argentine Sup-
reme Court said last sum-
mer he should be released
since there are no charges
against him. His wife and
three children are now liv-
ing in Israel and he wants to
join them.
Aja Espil's note
pointed out that the con-
tinued detention of
Aja Espil said that one of
the reasons given for the
continued imprisonme'ht of
Timerman was the
presumed "adverse reac-
tion" from the government's
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