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...some of the captives, the wait was not that long. Preliminary negotiations led to the release of 13 hostages, including the wounded Paraguayan charge d'affaires Rafael Vélez Pareja and ten women. Looking pale and distraught, some of them clad in elegant spike heels and furs, the women were whisked away from the scene in government cars. Also removed was the body of a 19-year-old guerrilla shot by Asencio's bodyguard during the seizure. He was still wearing his green sweatsuit, a black kerchief covering his face...
...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...
...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...
Despite his publicity campaign, the case was still unsettled when Filartiga arrived at Harvard three years later. The government has revoked the license of the lawyer representing Filartiga, then imprisoned him. Without a lawyer, Filartiga will undoubtedly lose the trial, and, according to Paraguayan law, the loser must pay the damages and the other's legal fees. Such payment will cost him the clinic...
...ugliest speculation about Mengele is that once again he may be involved in the destruction of a people-though on a much smaller scale. Despite Paraguayan denials, TIME's sources believe that he serves as an adviser to the Paraguayan police and frequently travels to the remote Chaco region where the Aché Indians are being hunted down or reduced to slave labor through techniques that are chillingly reminiscent of those of the German work camps. A high Paraguayan police official boasted to a visiting investigator that his government uses "German methods" in dealing with the Indians...