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...appalling poverty, with an average per capita annual income of only $867. In the Andes, the army is at war with Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a guerrilla group that advocates a Maoist-style revolution. Be cause of fears of terrorism, 105,000 army troops and police were placed on alert on election day. A dynamite blast, blamed by police on guerrillas in the central Andes city of Huancayo, killed two children and wounded four other people. But a call by Sendero Luminoso to boycott the election went unheeded, and voter participation in the Andean regions was believed to be heavier...
...letter went on to say that "consistent with my longstanding arrangement with Vice President George Bush, and not intending to set a precedent," Bush was authorized to discharge the powers of the presidency while Reagan was under anesthesia. Saturday evening, after Reagan was once again alert, he signed a second letter that was delivered to Congress affirming his intention to resume his duties. This informal, rather nebulous process carried out by the White House closely paralleled the formal constitutional procedure. "It may not be a formal invocation of the 25th Amendment," said former White House Communications Director David Gergen...
...second day on Taibi, we had an air-raid alert, a false alarm. Those who could, walked to a shelter. Most people were too weak to stand. They urinated and defecated where they were lying. Soldiers, their eyes red with fatigue, passed around canned oranges. But I could not eat; I could not bear the smell in the tent. My face was burning with fever, and my eyes and lips grew swollen. By now my arm was in terrible pain, and finally a soldier took me to a doctor. The doctor wanted to amputate, but the soldier said, 'This...
...fact begun with an air-raid alert for the city just after 7, but the B-29 soon passed over, and the all clear was sounded. This was the weather plane that advised the Enola Gay that the target was open. Schoolchildren looked forward to air-raid alerts, which allowed them to stop working. Kawamoto said goodbye to his mother, who told him to take care of himself. He plonked a shovel on his shoulder and strode soldier-like toward the railway station...
...vexed than Mexican President Vicente Fox, who is under pressure from the Bush Administration to crack down on the flow of drugs and illegal migrants across the Mexican border, amid fears that terrorists might exploit the lawlessness to sneak into the U.S. Mexico was infuriated by a recent U.S. alert about security dangers on the Mexican border and by a State Department report last month claiming that 90% of the cocaine hitting U.S. streets comes via Mexico, much higher than prior estimates of less than 75%. Mexico disputes the report, especially since it has made strides in breaking...