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Filartiga found his voice--a strident one--as well as his compassion in these years. His son's death taught him to use it. Joelito's one-and-a-half-hour torture session was recorded by the police, because they were so certain it would produce a confession. Filartiga has heard the tape, heard his son cry out that he had nothing to confess, listened while they accelerated the electric shocks, administered through his fingertips and genitals, until Joelito suddenly had a cardiac arrest and died...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Art of Healing Paraguay | 2/1/1980 | See Source »

...will readily confess that the Shah of Iran was far from a saint, but the people of Iran, by ousting the Shah and welcoming Khomeini, have chosen to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. And now they want to accuse the U.S. of lighting the stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Blunt confess in 1964? Boyle says he did it voluntarily, out of fear that he would be exposed. Then, says Boyle, the government voluntarily promised him immunity from prosecution-a clear implication that the British Establishment was covering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Tinker, Tailor, Curator, Spy | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Although only about ten students showed up at the meeting, all said they knew many others who watch soaps but are embarrassed to "confess." "A lot of people, especially here, really don't want to admit it," Richard A. Rohan '81 said yesterday. "They associate soaps with total mindlessness," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Speak About Soaps | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...government. It would have been wiser to recognize that in a society like that, economic development produces new classes and new groups that somehow have to be fitted into the political process. Thinking back to how I would have acted on that insight as Secretary of State, I confess I am still somewhat puzzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Dilemma of with Dictators | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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