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BUENOS AIRES, April 18--The InterAmerican Human Rights Commission accused the Argentine Government today of killing and torturing many people held in detention. It expressed concern about thousands who are missing and "can be presumed to be dead."

MONTGOMERY, Ala.--The state whose low taxes were made famous by George C. Wallace's Presidential campaigns is having a financial crisis so severe that thousands of nursing home residents may face eviction and there is danger that the state will be forced to curtail or end its Medicaid program, which serves hundreds of thousands of the poor and elderly.

To the shock and surprise of Isamu Noguchi, one of the world's foremost sculptors, a Japanese bank near Wall Street has removed his 1,600-pound work "Shinto" from a lobby ceiling, cut it into pieces and carted it off to a warehouse.

WASHINGTON, April 18--A recent Pentagon study has concluded that a new nuclear missile system based at sea could be substituted for the controversial MX mobile missile system that the Carter Administration proposes to base on land, according to a senior Defense Department official.

Most major American banks lowered their prime interest rates yesterday to 19 percent from the record 20 percent of recent weeks in yet another sign that a recession may have begun.

WASHINGTON, Saturday, April 19-- The mother and stepfather of one of the American hostages in Teheran flew to Iran yesterday in open defiance of President Carter's new ban on travel by Americans to that country.

WASHINGTON, April 18--Listening to the separate summations offered by President Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin after their talks in Washington this week, it was hard to ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 18--A group of armed Lebanese killed two Irish soldiers of the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon today and seriously wounded a third, a United Nations spokesman reported.

NEW DELHI, April 18 (Reuters)--A case against Sanjay Gandhi, son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was adjourned until May 9 today after key witnesses retracted statements against him, The Press Trust of India reported.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 18-- The 92 nations grouped as nonaligned normally enjoy pronouncing on almost any political subject under the sun, but they have become remarkably ...

SALISBURY, Zimbabwe, April 18-- The United States became the first country to open an embassy in the capital of this newly independent African state today and simultaneously signed an aid agreement that American officials predicted would be the forerunner of a major assistance program.