BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- An Argentine judge has ordered that two
                   Paraguayans suspected in the assassination of their country's vice president be
                   sent home to stand trial, authorities said Wednesday.

                   The two men, Fidencio Vega Barrios and Luis Alberto Rojas, were detained in
                   Buenos Aires in February after being sought by Paraguayan officials for
                   questioning in the March 23, 1999, shooting of Luis Maria Argana.

                   Judge Daniel Criscuolo, who approved their extraditions late Tuesday, said it was
                   unclear when Barrios and Rojas would be released to Paraguay. Their lawyers
                   have appealed his decision to Argentina's Supreme Court.

                   Argana was shot as he was being driven to his office in downtown Asuncion,
                   the Paraguayan capital. The killing sparked days of political turmoil that led to the
                   downfall of Paraguay's president at the time, Raul Cubas.

                   Lino Oviedo, a former army chief-of-staff who led a failed mutiny in 1996, has
                   been widely blamed as the instigator of Argana's murder. He fled to Argentina
                   days after the killing, received political asylum, but subsequently vanished.

                   His whereabouts are unknown, but in calls to journalists he has denied the
                   accusations.