Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your story "The Poor Suffer the Most" [Dec. 24] about the pain of the increasing cost of oil to the less-developed countries, you quoted me as saying that "our 1972 oil needs cost $11.8 million. Our 1979 needs will cost at least $103 million." What I really said was, "Our 1979 needs will cost at least $203 million...
...declared Jimmy Carter last week in his annual Economic Report to Congress. For a President plunging into an election year, the message was unprecedentedly candid: a 183-page catalogue of woes, pain and frustration that contained a frank admission that the nation was heading into a recession. It also made clear that Carter fully expected to be campaigning for renomination and re-election in a period in which inflation would still be hung up in double digits and unemployment would be growing. But for all the President's candor, the policy he outlined in his message...
...artist, Filartiga wishes to expose his nation's pain, force outsiders to examine Paraguayan wounds and ultimately to heal them. As a doctor, Filartiga's artistic vision finds literal expression. But in his son's case, his physician status could not save the battered body that he found four hours after the child was kidnapped by the police...
Filartiga did not retreat to nurse his pain in private. Instead he laid his son's naked body, mauled and burnt, in state on the bloody mattress just as he found him. He encouraged hundreds to file by and see the evidence for themselves. Filartiga next distributed photographs of his son and the details of his death to the Paraguayan papers. Several newspapers printed the pictures and ran the full story. Finally, Filartiga filed a homicide suit against the police inspector and three other members of the force...
...metaphor of his nation as dumping grounds for the world, observing that Nazi criminals flocked to Paraguay for refuge following World War II. Somoza likewise retreated to Paraguay temporarily last summer. "My country is the trash heap of the world," Filartiga states calmly, but his thick lenses magnify the pain in his eyes...