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When a president goes knocking on the doors of his citizens, it's usually a campaign stunt. But not in Peru. President Alberto Fujimori on Thursday raced around Lima with an escort of special forces troops, leading a house-to-house search for his disgraced former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos had earlier this week flown home following a failed bid for political asylum in Panama. The release last month of a videotape showing him bribing an opposition legislator to support President Fujimori had precipitated a political crisis that forced the strongman president to call new elections early next year...
...your report on political turmoil in Peru [WORLD, Oct. 2]: How simple it is for people, especially those sitting in comfortable offices in the U.S. or Europe, to accuse Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of running a "brutal and authoritarian government." How easily Fujimori's critics forget the brutal years of 1987-92, when thousands of innocent people died at the hands of the guerrillas. Fortunately most Peruvians recognize what Fujimori has achieved. That is the reason he was elected for a third term. BERNARDO ALVAREZ Lima...
...glad to hear him speak of drugs as a health problem more than as a criminal justice problem," said Alberto I. Glender, a Mexican native and a student at the Kennedy School "This health problem is translated into the biggest drug market in the world...
...Scientists have long studied the horrendous impact that fire has on the rain forest. Alberto Setzer of the Brazilian space agency, inpe, shocked the world when he used satellite imagery to show the extent of the burning in 1988. Out-of-control burning first brought me to Brazil in 1989 when I wrote the cover story for the Sept. 18 issue of Time called ?Torching the Amazon.? I have made several trips to parts of this giant ecosystem in neighboring countries since then, but this was my first trip back to the Brazilian Amazon, and there was, amid the rising...
...pledge as of late last week, however, Fujimori raised doubts about his resolve on that or other undertakings. With Montesinos holed up in his apartment at the top of SIN's downtown headquarters, guarded by 800 of his agents, the President made no moves against him. And congressman Alberto Kouri, the compromised opposition member, was not so much as questioned by police...