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Authorities in Peru take a far harsher view of Lori Berenson. They regard her as a dangerous radical who became closely involved with Marxist terrorists of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)--hiding them in her home, stockpiling their weapons, helping them plan an attack on the Peruvian Congress. Convicted of treason last week in Lima after a perfunctory three-day trial by a closed military tribunal, Berenson was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole...
Lines to live by from gangsta rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur, 22, who not long ago gave an interview on MTV with what looked to be a pistol tucked into his waist. Last week Shakur was arrested in Atlanta and charged in the shooting of two off-duty police officers...
Result: a government by, for and of rich white people, seen with general contempt by everyone else. Result: everyone else seeks representation outside the system, which in extreme cases means casting their lot with the urban-based Marxists of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement--or, even worse, with the notorious Sendero Luminoso...
...wife and kids, dental operations, the family dog. When I found a seat, it wasn't much better. I started reading a historical novel from Stop & Shop, about colonial South America. Everybody was supposed to be very masculine. There were dozens of love scenes and a picture of Tupec Amaru being beheaded. One way to get rid of a hangover...
...different breed of generals, the leftists: President Francisco Morales Bermůdez of Peru received us the day after he had tidied up a considerable turbulence in his regime. There had been two days and nights of military comings and goings at the Palacio Tupac Amaru, and at the end two influential generals were retired from the army. General Morales had either broken up a possible coup or, as one of the tame Lima newspapers put it, had simply moved "to have his own men in positions of trust and power, normal with all incoming Presidents in most parts...