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...Harvard seniors applying to law schools, the surge in applications led to stiffer competition for the available slots, says Dina Rakoff, pre-law adviser for Harvard's Office of Career Services...
Schafer has also been accused by former colony residents of engaging in the illegal importation and manufacture of light 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...
...colony again became the object of international attention in 1976, when a United Nations human rights commission report identified the camp as one of Chile's detention centers. The next year the West German branch of Amnesty International denounced Colonia Dignidad as a DINA torture center. The colony responded by launching a defamation suit in West Germany against Amnesty International, a legal dispute that continues today...
...connection with the Amnesty case, a West German judge asked the Chilean courts to arrange an inspection tour of the colony. Last week the managing director of Amnesty International's West German section announced in Parral that inspections of the surrounding terrain have so far supported testimony by former DINA prisoners who claim they were taken to Colonia Dignidad to be tortured. During the next two days a group that included a Chilean judge, Amnesty Attorney Maximo Pacheco, colony lawyers and representatives of the West German government was allowed inside the colony. According to Pacheco, the group identified four underground...
Despite any misunderstandings, we thank Mr. Schwaber for his interest on the issue and for giving the Society of Arab Students the opportunity to clarify our position. Trig Tarazi '89 President of the Society of Arab Students Dina Abu-Ghaida '91 Mona Khalil '88 Sammy Hassan...