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...next day and night were like a whirlwind--twenty-four hours of interrogations without sleep, after which I was handcuffed and put into a black upright coffin in the back of a van and sped over to Secret Police Headquarters (MFS) for an examination of my body including up my rear end, under my tongue, between my toes, and in my hair. I reeled half-asleep into the office of the interrogation judge, Traute, who asked me if I had any wishes before he turned me back over to the Secret Police. He told me they had no bail here...
...judge refused to admit the evidence that any Western agent and slave trader would try to marry the woman he was kidnapping and he promptly adjourned the trial. Before I got in points four-through-seven I was being hustled down the backstairs in handcuffs and into the rolling coffin...
...been placed there after she died of cancer in 1952 while a glass-enclosed mausoleum was being made ready. Rumors had her body thrown into the River Plate by the regime that ousted Perón. There was one report that 25 leading citizens were each given a sealed coffin, sworn to secrecy and asked to bury it. Each of the 25 believed that he alone had been entrusted with Evita's body...
...next chapter in Evita's posthumous peregrinations began 14 years later. Last month a man calling himself Carlos Maggi, "brother" of the fictitious Maria, received permission for the exhumation and transport of Maria Maggi's remains to Madrid. The coffin's wooden casing was found to be rotting, but the coffin itself, reportedly of silver with a glass window showing the woman's face, was in excellent condition. So was the corpse. After Evita's death, Perón paid the famed Spanish pathologist Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm her body...
...physically, so that relaxation can in effect replace fear. If he remains unafraid, he is asked to think of the next trigger-driving past a cemetery, for example-until at last he can finally confront the idea of what terrifies him most: perhaps a corpse in a coffin...