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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Nelva Mendez de Falcone, a pioneering member of an Argentine group that protested disappearances of loved ones during Argentina's Dirty War, has died, her family said Tuesday. She was 76.
Mendez de Falcone died Monday of an unspecified lung problem for which she had been hospitalized for the last 10 days in La Plata, 30 miles southeast of the capital of Buenos Aires, the family said.
She was one of the first members of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the famous white-scarved activists who for decades have pressed to learn the fate of their children who vanished during the 1976-83 dictatorship.
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