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...LIMA: As Alberto Fujimori toured the ambassador's residence before television cameras on Wednesday, he paused for a moment over the dead body of Nestor Cerpa, lying face-up on a curved staircase in the mansion's main hall. Among the bullet holes that riddled Cerpa's body was a single one in the forehead. Having erased with finality the multiple humiliations of the 126-day hostage crisis, Fujimori can credibly claim to have made good on his 1995 re-election campaign vow: to squash terrorism in Peru. Asked at a Thursday press conference whether the country had seen...
...German model Claudia Schiffer, Friday, explaining her take on cloning at a news conference in Peru. The conference was called to promote a local credit card and publicize her upcoming appearance at a Lima fashion show...
...guerrillas in 1980. For 22 weeks, about 15 members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which is known to have drawn inspiration from the Cuban Revolution, have released hundreds of hostages, but continue to hold 72 of the more prominent officials at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima. It is not clear how Fujimori?s latest move will be received by the rebels, who have insisted all long that their one non-negotiable demand is the release of 400 of their jailed comrades, a condition that Fujimori has categorically opposed...
...LIMA, Peru: Peru's seven-week hostage crisis moved closer to resolution after a three-hour meeting between mediators and Tupac Amaru rebels to set the agenda for negotiations with government representatives. Emerging from the Japanese ambassador's residence early Thursday afternoon, Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani said that "we are headed toward finding the light of a peaceful solution." Cipriani did not say whether a definite date for talks had been set, but noted that efforts to free the 72 remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help...
...LIMA, Peru: The relentless taunting of rebels by Peruvian police continues to edge toward conflagration. Five times Monday, as Peruvian war marches blared from speakers mounted high near the compound walls, black-bereted commandos staged elaborate maneuvers underneath. Armored personnel carried rolled by, and as always, all gun barrels were trained ominously on the residence. Japan's permission is needed for any attack on the compound. But Tokyo worries where the steadily intensifying displays will lead. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto had asked the Peruvian government "not to go too far. Not thinking of the hostages' mental...