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...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...
Perhaps the ugliest tale Kyemba offers concerns Amin's own family. In March 1974 the dictator suddenly divorced three of his four wives; the three, says Kyemba, had been unfaithful, as Amin found out. Five months later, the dismembered body of one of the former wives, Kay, was found in Kampala. For once, Kyemba exonerates Amin: "I do not believe, as I first did, that Amin had a direct hand in Kay's death." Instead, he writes, she died during an abortion that was being performed by her lover, a doctor. Kyemba speculates that the doctor dismembered...
Unlike the regular district attorneys who handle suspects aged 16 and over, prosecutors in Family Court have no investigative staff to follow through in collecting evidence. Getting witnesses to cooperate is a major problem. One of the ugliest open cases at the moment involves a twelve-year-old boy accused of stabbing an adult. The child is a "chicken," or male prostitute, and his victim was a "chicken hawk," his homosexual customer. After being wounded in his own bathtub, the man called police and signed a complaint. Stitched up and calmed down, he now wants to forget the whole thing...
Asked if he was happy about his piece in Rolling Stone magazine praising then-candidate Jimmy Carter last year, Thompson replied in the negative, and called the piece "the ugliest thing I've ever put in print...
...back there is a small swimming pool, beside which stand a 6-ft. metal robot, a souvenir from one of her TV specials, and a stone statue of a naked maiden-wearing a wig and sunglasses. Out front is a 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer. One of the ugliest cars ever to come out of Detroit, it is nonetheless a treasure to her: "I like cars that look like real cars I could identify when...