The issue of disappeared persons in Argentina will be among the topics to be discussed at a conference on human rights sponsored by the United States beginning today. A Swiss committee that has been working on behalf of the disappeared persons told a press conference this issue will be taken up by a number of ambassadors attending the conference.
The committee distributed a list of 103 journalists who have disappeared in Argentina which included a number of Jewish journalists. They are: Roberto Elias Asf, Rafael Callelupo, Guilerma Engel, Ariel Gelman, Raymundo Gleyzer, Felix Granovski, Mario ldelman, lgnacio lkonikoff, Enrique Raab, and Rodolfo Esparati. There was no indication under what circumstances the journalists had disappeared.
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