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...LIMA, Peru: The hostage crisis in Peru is once again at an impasse. President Alberto Fujimori, who had allowed that freedom for jailed Tupac Amaru rebels could at least be discussed, retreated Wednesday to his original hard stance, saying: "We are not going to allow (government negotiator Domingo) Palermo to go to the conversation table and sit down if they haven't accepted that there won't be any freeing of prisoners." Fujimori said other issues, including improved prison conditions for the jailed rebels and safe passage and possible pardons for the hostage-takers, could be raised. Red Cross representative...
Wearing blue jeans and a contemptuous look, Peru's President Alberto Fujimori swaggers into the dank cellblock of the Castro Castro Prison, a squalid penitentiary on Lima's outskirts that houses scores of captured rebels from the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). Seeing Fujimori, the Tupac prisoners spring angrily from the concrete beds inside their overcrowded cells. Fists raised, they hurl deafening Marxist choruses: "Fujimori, dictator, the people will defeat...
...taking such a hit in the polls? Since last January his approval ratings have dropped from the high 70s to the low 40s. Voter preference polls for the election in the year 2000 are worse: in the most recent national survey, Fujimori placed second, with only 26%, behind Lima Mayor Alberto Andrade. "I don't govern by popularity polls," Fujimori retorts...
...course they are going to come out and wave." Like Marcial Surco in San Juan de Amancaes: he came out to wave last week, but volunteered in front of Fujimori that he hasn't had steady work in almost a year. Or Jorge Alvarado, 24, a semiemployed accountant in Lima's lower-middle-class Pueblo Libre neighborhood. "I don't agree with Nestor Cerpa taking hostages," he said. "But the embarrassing thing about this crisis is that Cerpa has become a sort of interlocutor between Fujimori and our economic problems. Maybe Fuji will listen to us a little more after...
...LIMA, Peru: Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will allow government negotiators to discuss the Tupac Amaru rebel demand of freedom for their jailed comrades, but the conversation will be somewhat limited. While negotiators can talk about the topic with rebel representatives, Peru's government "cannot approve such (a) liberation," Fujimori said in an interview with Japanese television. Fujimori's comments mark the first time he has relaxed his unbending opposition to releasing the rebel prisoners in exchange for the 73 hostages, including Fujimori's brother and the Peruvian foreign minister, who have been held for a month by the Marxist Tupac...