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...Peru met Presidents Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia at an air force base near Pisco, 45 miles northwest of Ica. They flew by helicopter to the Las Dunas hotel outside this city of 350,000 in the coastal desert 185 miles southeast of Lima...
...wife Bonnie MacAdam tried the agencies, avoided the lawyers and waited a year for a Korean baby before looking elsewhere. "The process can be heartbreaking," says Bonnie. But when they applied for a Peruvian baby, the phone call came six weeks later, and they soon boarded a plane for Lima. Last week Bonnie returned to New Hampshire with five-month-old Rosa. "Once you have the baby in your arms," she says, "it seems worth all the waiting, money, traveling and hassle...
...Peru can be considered one of the ends of the earth -- and as an area of mostly trackless jungle, it qualifies -- the President was speaking literally. Today two U.S. State Department bulldozers are cutting a landing strip on the banks of the Huallaga River 300 miles northeast of Lima. From this base, the Peruvian National Police and U.S. drug-enforcement agents will mount paramilitary strikes on the valley's coca-processing centers and the airstrips used to fly out cocaine...
...come from all of a sudden? Randall Terry is this year's most obvious symbol of the right-to-life movement. An ordained preacher who physically resembles former boy evangelist Marjoe Gortner, Terry dropped out of high school, had a "conversion experience," then went to Elim Bible Institute in Lima, N.Y. He started picketing abortion clinics, along with his wife, in 1984 while working for a car salesman. Before Terry came along there had been large lobbying and education groups in the field for decades -- the National Right to Life Committee, the Human Rights Review, the annual antiabortion marches organized...
...firm, which has 20 employees, planned the reconstruction of a university campus outside of Lima, Peru, and drafted a master plan for Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, after it was hit by a huge quake...