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...Peru, one of the really hopeful countries in the hemisphere (TIME cover, March 12), seemed safe from the Castroite threat. The country's economy is strong, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has been adding new roads, schools and communications lines in the interior to reduce the backlands poverty and remoteness that breeds revolutionaries. After last week's bombings, Peruvians were jarred into a sharp new awareness that they are not immune...
...After first dismissing the terrorists as no worse than bandits, Belaúnde reacted sharply. Declaring all-out war on the extremists, he suspended constitutional guarantees for 30 days-banning public assembly, allowing police to search homes without warrants, and permitting the indefinite detention of suspects...
...hours later, police began rounding up more than 300 known Communists and extremists belonging to the pro-Communist National Liberation Front. Meanwhile, Belaúnde ordered 100 anti-guerrilla commandos and 500 infantrymen into the central highlands, along with helicopters, Canberra bombers and light artillery...
...past ten months that Peru's Communist Party has been reorganizing for agitation, sabotage and insurrection. After last week's incidents, the government ordered 400 civil guards to track down the guerrillas and alerted an army battalion to move into the area if the Communists were spotted. Belaúnde's long-range hope is to contain the guerrillas until his own self-help housing, health, and road-building plans begin to make an impression on the long-neglected Indians, rendering them less susceptible to Communist promises...
...dashing about like a Polish division of the Keystone Cops. Andrew Weil as Pere Ubu, the fat man who usurps the Polish throne, leads the whole menagerie. He bellows like a bull, whines like a hyena and eats like a pig. Mere Ubu (Virginia Morrs) comes on with a Bela Lugosi accent, smelling roses, swearing at her husband and slaying a mock army with a toilet brush. Sidney Goldfarb plays a Brooklyn Hamlet out to avenge his slain father with a plastic baseball bat. Everybody bellows and jumps around...