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...life's long and strange journey, the terminally ill are sent to a nursing home or hospital to die, often alone. That is shameful. The end of life, like the beginning, should be spent in the company of loved ones, in a home rather than an institution. JOSH KIENITZ Lima, Ohio...
...Fujimori's predicament is made all the worse because the interior minister, the defense minister and the armed forces chiefs of staff are all loyal to the feared Montesinos. The general who commands the Lima garrison and the armored division also happens to be the intelligence chief's brother-in-law. In the early hours of Monday, Fujimori had driven from his palace to the "Little Pentagon" of the military high command , and according to some army sources he tried to win backing for his efforts to drop Montesinos but was rebuffed by the top brass. In other words, Fujimori...
...Peru's President Alberto Fujimori to step down; it was the very armed forces that had guaranteed his power. The questions that may hold Peru?s fate, however, is why the generals made it clear to Fujimori that he had to go, and what their next move might be. Lima was awash Monday in rumors of coups and conspiracies, and it?s not hard to see why: New of the planned resignation of a strongman who had defied not only his own countrymen but also his most powerful backers in Washington and the wider Latin American community to steal...
...TRIAL GRANTED. For LORI BERENSON, 30, American imprisoned in Peru; after serving almost five years of a life sentence for treason, ordered by a military tribunal; in Lima. Peruvian authorities say new evidence shows Berenson was not a terrorist but an accessory in a radical group's attack plan. If convicted, she could receive a minimum sentence of 20 years...
...children, we take natural precautions, which is why an adult male leads a Boy Scout troop--not a girls' troop--and normally there is not any danger. If the adult is gay, however, even under your hypothesis, the precaution is weakened, and tragedy could follow. HUGO R. ZEA BARRIGA Lima...