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...Cattle rustlers, that's all," snorted Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry when the first reports of Communist guerrilla activity filtered down from the country's Andean highlands last June. The remark now haunts Belaúnde. Last week, in the severest crisis of his 26-month administration, Belaúnde chose to accept the resignation of his entire Cabinet rather than allow it to appear before Congress to answer criticism about the government's laggardly response to the guerrilla threat...
...long ago, Colombia was held up as a showcase of the Alianza - relatively rich in resources, increasingly mature in politics, full of hopeful plans for the future. The Andean country is now approaching what Colombians gloomily call "zero hour...
After three months of fighting in the remote Andean highlands of central Peru, the Communist bands that President Fernando Belaunde Terry once dismissed as a "mere fiction" still operate. They are now a recognized fact of life. The constitutional guarantees suspended two months ago, putting the country under a form of martial law, are still suspended. Last week the Peruvian Congress went a step farther by authorizing military courts to impose the death penalty on captured guerrillas, and voted $7,400,000 to step up an already major operation against what the lawmakers called "imperialistic Communist aggression...
Howling in from the South Pacific, a succession of violent storms with 65-m.p.h. winds has been raking a 1,000-mi. central strip where lowland floods and Andean avalanches have already left 88 dead, scores injured, some 90,000 homeless. On the Andes' eastern slopes in Argentina, more avalanches have killed another 43. In Chile the most crippling losses hit crops, livestock and public property...
...remote central highlands. One band of 60 men invaded two big cattle estates near Concepción, burned homes and barns, destroyed a dairy plant and dynamited two bridges nearby. Other guerrillas raided two police outposts, stole arms and ammunition, killed seven police before disappearing into the dense Andean jungles. Last week the terrorists carried their vicious little war to Lima itself. One night a small bomb exploded in Lima's fashionable Club Nacional and another erupted outside the nearby Crillon Hotel. Remarkably, only three people were hurt...