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...that time she had begun using artificial plants because they were easier to work with and clients seemed to like them. She has since created everything from a replica of Arizona's Sonoran Desert for an Atlantic City, N.J., casino to a European country garden inside the Sheraton in Lima, Peru...
...need more variety over time. They've had the same six salad dressings ever since I came here. They're good salad dressings, but it's easy to get bored with them," said Ben J. Lima...
...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 of Timothy McVeigh, who was allegedly motivated by Waco, was placed under tighter security after three men with ties to the Branch Davidians were...
...Peruvian commandos waited all night under the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, hunkered down in a winding, steel-braced tunnel complex. Loaded down with weapons, ammunition and body armor, they still had enough room to rest and try to sleep. The tunnels were the work of professional miners, and the troops could walk upright, two abreast, through lighted and ventilated chambers. In the morning, after a final planning session, their officers slipped through nearby buildings and into the tunnels to join the 140 army, navy and air-force special-operations forces underground for the attack. Lieut. Colonel Juan Valer...
...LIMA, Peru: Family members of the 14 Tupac Amaru rebels killed in Tuesday's raid are protesting that they were not allowed to bury their dead. The Peruvian government said the rebels will be buried in various locations, in unmarked graves. Lawyers representing the families charge that the government is hiding the bodies to suppress evidence that some rebels were mutilated, while others were executed when they attempted to surrender. Graphic television footage of Peruvian president Fujimori?s visit to the embassy showed what appeared to be mutilated rebel bodies; one had neither head nor arms...