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...human-animal bond has long lifted spirits at home, and now is bringing that touch of hearth to institutional settings. In U.S. prisons, the Birdman of Alcatraz has numerous descendants. In Lima, Ohio, at a facility for mentally ill inmates, part of the courtyard resembles a barnyard. Sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits -- even deer -- roam around. "We're finding the prisoners who have pets are less violent," says Psychiatric Social Worker David Lee. In a double bonus, women inmates in Gig Harbor, Wash., are training special dogs to aid the handicapped. For one family with a daughter who suffers from...
...Hobby World's Toy Hit Parade) have lots of modern dash, but electric trains still have romance enough to lure any kid away from a video game. Purists note that Lionel may not be all it once was, but the H-O gauge lines of Marklin and Roco, Lima and Liliput, chug as reliably as ever, and the large-scale LGBs, made in West Germany, could be the grandest toy trains ever. A starter set (about $330) with a steam locomotive and two passenger cars is a richly detailed invitation to further excursions that can be plotted from the elaborate...
...intensity of her needs that ensures her greatness as a literary character, a point that elicits wholehearted sympathy from Vargas Llosa, who as an outspoken young writer and Peruvian hotspur once caused quite a stir in conservative Lima. "It is not only the fact that Emma is capable of defying her milieu," he writes, "but also the causes of her defiance that force me to admire that elusive little nobody. These causes are very simple and stem from something that she and I share intimately: our incurable * materialism, our greater predilection for the pleasures of the body than for those...
...canny political meddling proved to be the turning point in an election that Garcia managed to transform into a referendum on his first 16 months in office. Such tactics paid off handsomely. Not only did the President's handpicked candidate, an unknown named Jorge del Castillo, win the Lima mayoralty, the second highest elected office in Peru. When the votes were counted up and down the Andean nation, Garcia's A.P.R.A. had unofficially won in nine of Peru's ten largest cities, a gain of four. Combined with the party's control of both houses of the national legislature...
...month-long campaign was marred by scattered acts of violence. Guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the fanatical Maoist revolutionary group that has terrorized the countryside since 1980, shot and killed an A.P.R.A. candidate for city council in Huancayo, 122 miles east of Lima. To the southeast, near the city of Ayacucho, Sendero insurgents threatened to cut off the fingers of campesinos found with stamp marks on their hands showing they had voted. But the anti-A.P.R.A. violence did not approach the level that it was feared would result after government troops killed at least 260 prisoners last...