Word: suspect
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Next to murder, torture is the most egregious violation of personal rights one human being can inflict on another. Sadly, the practice is almost as old as history. During the Middle Ages, suspected heretics were racked, scourged and burned by representatives of the Inquisition in order to make them recant, while in this century Hitler's concentration camps and Stalin's Gulag Archipelago institutionalized torture and brutality on a scale hitherto unknown. The 1948 United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights condemning torture was one notable reaction of the world community to the excesses of the Third Reich...
...DINA is fairly ecumenical in finding victims; former parliamentarians and army officers have been tortured, as well as suspect leftist terrorists. Recounts Carlos Pérez Tobar, once a lieutenant in the Chilean army arrested by the junta after he tried to resign his commission: "I was tortured with electric shock, forced to live in underground dungeons so small that in one I could only stand up and in the other only lie down. I was beaten incessantly, dragged before a mock firing squad, and regularly told that my wife and child and relatives were suffering the same fate...
Gallic disparagement could, to some extent, be attributed to a kind of reverse chauvinism: anything the Americans go wild for is automatically suspect. The corollary: the French have come around to buying the Matisses, Braques and Picassos that American art collectors started snapping up 70 years ago. Nor is that too extreme a comparison. Critic after critic referred to Saint Laurent's originals as investments. Women's Wear Daily called them "instant museum pieces...
...suspect is a descendant of the Newhalls, an old and wealthy California family. Both his grandmother, Frances Newhall Woods, and his father, Frederick Nickerson Woods III, hold stock in the family-founded Newhall Land and Farming Co., which has large investments in agriculture, cattle, oil, gas and land. Despite his background, Chip Woods has succeeded in very little so far in his young life; he could not even hold a job as a paint salesman. His wife divorced him in 1972 on the first anniversary of their marriage. About all that he seemed to be good at-and interested...
Eight months ago, a guard had found Woods and some other men digging a big hole in a gravel pit that was owned by the suspect's father. The kidnap victims were held in the body of a trailer truck half-buried in the pit, and the guard remembered the previous incident and tipped the police about Woods. Police now believe that Woods not only bought the van in which the children and driver were held but that he also purchased the two Navy surplus panel trucks used to carry them to the site...