BRITIUH DUSINESSAAN AU, HIS ARGENTINE WIFE ARRIVE BACK IN BRITAIN AFTER 4h-NONTHs IN ARGENTINE JAIL,
"RICHARD WHITECROSS, the British businessman held for 4A months in an Ar,entine jell, arrivee back Ct Heathrow Airnort last might nod told of being arrested at gunpoint and being threntened with drath by gunrds who, he snidtortured most of the prisoner. Hie Argentine-born wife, held in the eame jail, said she wns forced to watch ne one of their friends, with n hood over his head, ',Is bonten up ny four men. Mr Whitecro.a, 30-yenr-old South American reprenentative of the Oxford University Press, nnd his wife CDRISTINA, wore the first politicel detntnees to be freed nfter n coup overthrew the regime of President Marin Peron. They were arrested on Nov, 24th with a Left-wihg Chilean friend SERGIO !MU, who was stnying at their flat in Buenos Aires.
PHOTO SHOWS DR. RICHARD Sal_plgLIDli and his Argentina wife CHRISTINE seen on their nrrival at Hanthrow Airport from Buenos Aires where they had been held for 4L months;
Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.
Photo is dated 04-04-1976.
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