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Such incidents supercharged a campaign by state senator Judy Baar Topinka, who was recently elected state treasurer. "I've lost my patience," she declared in July. "I want to act now. Act yesterday. Kids are being killed, tortured, starved, abandoned." She adds now, "Illinois will have orphanages. It's just a question of what form they will take." Both Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a Democrat, and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, a Republican, are on board. But perhaps most vociferous on the subject has been Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy, whose father spent three years in an orphanage. "Foster care...
...arms. Most chilling, perhaps, are accusations by victims and ex-agents of Chile's dreaded intelligence service, DINA (renamed CNI in 1977), that Colonia Dignidad has been involved in the torture of leftist opponents of the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. "These are gruesome matters," says Hugo Baar, a colony co- founder and a former associate of Schafer's, who calls the colony a "group that has become poisoned with lies...
...most serious blows against Schafer came from the testimony of Baar, a onetime member of the colony's inner circle who escaped in 1984, leaving behind nine children. Baar decried his former colleague as a paranoid dictator who rode around the compound in a bulletproof Mercedes-Benz carrying weapons and ammunition...
Meanwhile, some human rights officials are afraid that Schafer, if pushed too far, might take drastic action. Said Baar: "I fear for the lives of the Dignidad people if it comes to conflict there. I am certain that shootings cannot be avoided, and I say that out of deep conviction...
...Everyone knows how to get sober," says Michael Baar, an Albany, Calif., psychologist. "The problem is keeping them in that state." Relapse prevention is the latest attempt to help reduce the number of recovering alcoholics who fall off the wagon. Terence Gorski, president of the Center for Applied Sciences in Hazel Crest, Ill., has studied thousands of relapse cases and found that on their way to recovery, alcoholics go through specific stages, each with its dangerous temptation to return to drinking. Early on, it may be hard to cope with withdrawal. Later, the patient may falter in developing a normal...