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...latest offensive by Peru's Shining Path guerrillas has reached unprecedented ferocity -- and has focused on Lima, which has never experienced such a brutal wave of attacks. Starting in mid-July with a car bomb that killed more than 20 people in the capital, the campaign has flared into a full-scale blitz. Last week bombs destroyed several police stations, a private research center and the Bolivian embassy. Though President Alberto Fujimori, who canceled his trip to an Ibero-American summit in Madrid, has promised a "battle without mercy," his police and army seem helpless...
...only surprise for many observers was that it took so long for the putsch to come. Large tracts of Peruvian territory have been overrun by drug traffickers and vicious Shining Path guerrillas, whose terrorist campaign has reached the shantytowns around Lima, the nation's capital. Less than 20% of the work force is employed full time. More than half of Peru's 22 million people live in dismal poverty; a recent cholera epidemic killed more than...
Again, as usual, everyone was distinctly unimpressed with the government and the system. Protest voting brought in Fujimoro in an election characterized above all by the rejection of anyone who had ever had anything whatsoever to do with the Lima government, including APRA...
...Lima has not found a decent way of fighting Sendero. The army has taken to shooting up whole villages that are suspected of harboring Senderistas, which doesn't endear the government to anyone. "Civilian response has been to ignore it," one U.S. official told The New York Times. "The military response has been to blow everyone away...
...least 39 passengers and crew members who arrived last month on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight from Buenos Aires have come down with the disease; one died. Los Angeles health officials, who are still trying to locate other passengers, suspect that airline meals taken on at a stop in Lima were tainted. Other major carriers now are taking special precautions. While American Airlines has eliminated green salads and fresh seafood from its South American menus, Varig copes by loading its planes with extra food from safer sources in Brazil, Chile and Argentina...