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...with Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a guerrilla group that advocates a Maoist-style revolution. Be cause of fears of terrorism, 105,000 army troops and police were placed on alert on election day. A dynamite blast, blamed by police on guerrillas in the central Andes city of Huancayo, killed two children and wounded four other people. But a call by Sendero Luminoso to boycott the election went unheeded, and voter participation in the Andean regions was believed to be heavier than ever before. Said Writer Mario Vargas Llosa: "APRA was seen by many as the best defense against the extreme...
...Luminoso began its campaign to overthrow the government. Already this year, 794 killings have been tallied, though the actual number is no doubt much higher. Outside the major cities, hundreds of police officers and mayors have deserted their posts after receiving death threats from terrorists. In the area around Huancayo, the capital of Peru's breadbasket department of Junin, Sendero Luminoso is locked in a battle for dominance with the Cuban-oriented M.R.T.A. rebels. The city, says Raul Gonzalez, a sociologist and expert on the Sendero Luminoso, "is now the critical spot to Sendero's future." From there, the Shining...
...month-long campaign was marred by scattered acts of violence. Guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the fanatical Maoist revolutionary group that has terrorized the countryside since 1980, shot and killed an A.P.R.A. candidate for city council in Huancayo, 122 miles east of Lima. To the southeast, near the city of Ayacucho, Sendero insurgents threatened to cut off the fingers of campesinos found with stamp marks on their hands showing they had voted. But the anti-A.P.R.A. violence did not approach the level that it was feared would result after government troops killed at least 260 prisoners last...
...Military Swarm. At first, the Peruvian government thought that rural police units could handle the Communists. It turned out to be too big a job, and now the army has taken over. The departmental capital of Huancayo, 120 miles east of Lima near the heart of guerrilla activity, swarms with soldiers and military vehicles. On nearby air fields, military transports land with supplies, while helicopters and bomb-laden twin-jet Canberra bombers stand ready for takeoff. In the field some 1,500 soldiers−advised by U.S. anti-guerrilla experts−are committed against the Red terrorists...
Indian Fatteners. The best estimate is that the guerrillas are in four bands, totaling possibly 1,000 men, and strongest in the area around Huancayo. Their leaders are Communist professionals: Guillermo Lobaton, 34, a Peruvian trained in insurgency in Cuba and Red China and reported to have fought with the Viet Cong, and Castroite Lawyer Luis de la Puente, 36, wanted in Lima for a 1962 murder. The terrorists preach the usual Communist line about capitalist exploitation and free land for all, attempt to counter the government's own considerable efforts at aid and social reform among the Indians...