Word: fujimori
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...congratulations to President Fujimori for having the courage and tenacity to refuse to capitulate to the terrorist demands that he release Tupac Amaru prisoners in exchange for the hostages [WORLD, May 5]. The loss of innocent life was unfortunate, but taking no Tupac Amaru prisoners clearly means there is less motivation for future terrorists to attempt another exchange for jailed comrades. Fujimori has made Peru a safer, saner country. BURT M. RICHMOND Chicago
...held out through the week, five were in custody while two who had fled into the countryside seemed likely to be run to ground by bloodhounds and Rangers on horseback. Midway through the almost comic siege, reporters joked that Governor George W. Bush might have to turn into Governor Fujimori--a reference to the Peruvian President who had to use force to end the four-month siege of the Japanese embassy in Lima. Officials took every precaution in the standoff, not least because Texas is the place that saw the Waco conflagration. (Earlier in the week, the Denver trial...
...guerrillas were killed, and in the aftermath there were charges, or at least suspicions, that some had tried to surrender but were executed. Fujimori stoutly denied he had issued a shoot-to-kill order. "My only order," he told reporters, "was to rescue 72 hostages." That is almost the same thing, of course. Special-operations troops are trained to kill swiftly to keep terrorists from fulfilling their threats to massacre their hostages. Commandos usually warn hostages to lie down because they will be shooting at anyone standing up. When the special troops, wearing gas masks, burst into the thick smoke...
Whether Tupac Amaru, which has been operating since 1982, is destroyed is less certain. Fujimori has made the claim before, and was proved wrong by the seizure of the embassy residence in December. Now he is not so cocksure. "They are not necessarily eliminated," he says. "There are other terrorists out there, and we're going to keep a more careful eye on them." If they can, those guerrillas will try to show they are still in business with another attack. "Sure, this is a serious defeat," says the Tupac Amaru's European spokeswoman Norma Velazco...
...President's approval rating jumped to 67% in one poll last week, up from 38% during the hostage crisis. But if Fujimori is to stay there and run again successfully in the election three years from now, he will have to do more than chase guerrillas. He rules with a quiet, icy authoritarianism that will have to soften if it is to make room for the social reforms and additional democracy he has promised. But last week his old-fashioned hardness, the stony style he displayed when he glared down at Cerpa's body on the staircase, unquestionably...