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BACK HOME IN NEW YORK CITY, HER friends and relatives know Lori Berenson as a compassionate idealist, an innocent waylaid by her concern for the poor and oppressed of Latin America. Rhoda Berenson, a community-college physics teacher, says the very notion of her 26-year-old daughter's being involved in violence "is absolutely ridiculous." A friend since junior high school, Daniel Radosh, finds it "hard to reconcile what they are saying about her with the gentle person I know...
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...
...injustice of the trial has come under attack by the U.S. State Department, human-rights organizations, Berenson's lawyers and her family's legal adviser, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Yet Berenson herself may have undercut her defenders at a defiant press conference three days before the sentencing. Presented in manacles and shackles, she not only admitted being affiliated with the MRTA, a serious crime, but naively defended the group as nonviolent despite its record of bombings, bank robberies and kidnappings dating back to 1984. "If it is a crime to worry about the inhuman conditions in which...
Marc Phineas Berenson...
...press and the fashion faithful -- a tribute to the stir that de la Renta and Balmain are causing. On hand are a healthy number of designers and well-known customers: Valentino, Claude Pompidou, some major Agnellis and Rothschilds and a generous sprinkling of American celebrities, among them Marisa Berenson, Paloma Picasso, Mica Ertegun and Barbara Walters...