Word: recantings
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...question his identification of fellow prisoners as members of al-Qaeda. He also told Gutierrez that he had informed interrogators of his false declarations, a contention supported in part by his interrogation log. "He adamantly denies the statements attributed to him; he made false declarations which he tried to recant to his captors and to his lawyer," said Gutierrez...
...some cases, patients with high-dosage prescriptions are turned away by drug stores, which are also subject to DEA investigations. "It's demeaning," says Mary Vargas, a Maryland attorney whose spine was injured in an auto accident. "Pharmacists tell me they don't have the medication, only to recant and dispense it when I persist with the manager...
...Vatican first contacted Curran in 1979, sending a 16-page list of the "principal errors and ambiguities" in his writings. After several exchanges, Ratzinger last year wrote Curran that he must recant (which he refuses to do) or no longer be deemed a teacher of Catholic theology. A formal Vatican statement to that effect would end Curran's post at the university, where theologians work under church mandate because graduate religion degrees are granted under a papal charter...
...unit, the No. 301 People's Liberation Army Hospital in Beijing, said the couple had been taken to a secret location "for their protection." Sources told TIME last week that they had been taken into custody by military and party officials determined to re-educate Jiang and make him recant through daily "study sessions" that include viewing films justifying the Tiananmen crackdown. Squeezing from Jiang an expression of regret about the letters, a source told TIME, "would be a great tool with which to undermine the effect of his criticism...
...their children were told by officials that the couple had been taken to a secret location "for their protection." But it soon emerged that they had been forcibly detained. Hua was later released, but sources say Jiang has since been subjected to daily indoctrination sessions to persuade him to recant. "What the authorities really want," says one source familiar with the situation, "is for him to express regret for writing or sending his letters, which would be a great tool with which to undermine the effect of his criticism...