Word: lima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peru can be considered one of the ends of the earth -- and as an area of mostly trackless jungle, it qualifies -- the President was speaking literally. Today two U.S. State Department bulldozers are cutting a landing strip on the banks of the Huallaga River 300 miles northeast of Lima. From this base, the Peruvian National Police and U.S. drug-enforcement agents will mount paramilitary strikes on the valley's coca-processing centers and the airstrips used to fly out cocaine...
...come from all of a sudden? Randall Terry is this year's most obvious symbol of the right-to-life movement. An ordained preacher who physically resembles former boy evangelist Marjoe Gortner, Terry dropped out of high school, had a "conversion experience," then went to Elim Bible Institute in Lima, N.Y. He started picketing abortion clinics, along with his wife, in 1984 while working for a car salesman. Before Terry came along there had been large lobbying and education groups in the field for decades -- the National Right to Life Committee, the Human Rights Review, the annual antiabortion marches organized...
...firm, which has 20 employees, planned the reconstruction of a university campus outside of Lima, Peru, and drafted a master plan for Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, after it was hit by a huge quake...
...protesting intellectuals particularly criticized the Amazon project that is of most concern to ecologists: a proposed road across the western state of Acre to Pucallpa, Peru, where it would link up with a Peruvian highway that stretches over the Andes to Lima. The highway link would provide Acre with a Pacific outlet for its tropical hardwoods, which are much in demand in Japan. It would also open up the western Amazon for the first time to the kind of commercial exploitation that, in the view of environmentalists, would lead to devastation...
...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 Path, which already controls at least one-third of the countryside, intends to take Lima, only 120 miles away, by encircling it and cutting it off from the rest of the country...