The World - News from Dec. 27, 1988

Uruguay’s Electoral Court confirmed that enough voters have signed petitions opposing a December, 1986, military amnesty law to force a referendum that could overturn it. The referendum probably will be held in April, said Juan Furest, one of nine members of the court. The amnesty law bars the prosecution of soldiers and police accused of human rights abuses during the 1973-85 military dictatorship’s suppression of urban terrorism. Foes of the amnesty law needed 555,701 signatures to force the referendum.