February 1, 2001

URUGUAY: PACT OF SILENCE Hundreds of current and retired military officers made a pact of silence early last year after President Jorge Batlle set up a peace commission to establish what happened to about 160 people who disappeared during the 1973-85 military dictatorship, according to an article in Búsqueda, a weekly. The information was based on information from a retired colonel, Manuel Cordero. Clifford Krauss (NYT)