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...paltry 380 kilos of cocaine. Clamping down on coca cultivation has been even harder in Peru. Four years ago, Washington launched what was regarded as a well-planned $26 million program centered on the coca-growing upper Huallaga Valley, a steep-sloped area some 200 miles northeast of Lima, the capital. The first part of the program was an $18 million, five-year project by the Agency for International Development to help the Peruvians build roads, bridges and water systems. The scheme was also designed to reduce coca production and encourage instead the cultivation of coffee, bananas, rice, citrus...
...Pope John Paul II hewed to a delicately balanced, catechistic course. In homily after homily he warned his audiences against the seductive appeal of liberation theology, which in its more radical forms filters the Christian message through a Marxist- influenced social analysis of the class struggle. In a teeming Lima slum last week, the Pontiff declared that the church seeks "authentic liberation" through moral teaching that will set in motion forces to bring about change. But, he said, the church has a limited role in solving "concrete problems." If that was less than progressive priests and nuns would have liked...
...next night, minutes after the Pope's plane landed outside Lima, bombs apparently planted by Shining Path exploded at four electricity towers, plunging sectors of the capital into darkness; a large hammer-and-sickle was set ablaze on a nearby hillside. The Pope was never endangered, but the guerrillas had unintentionally summarized the point of his antiterrorist message. In Lima, when the Pope greeted an informal crowd that had gathered in a blacked-out street, a good-natured chant went up: "John Paul is light...
Every year the haunting stone ruins on the steep eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes are pummeled by up to 230 in. of rain. Getting to the site, 300 miles north of Lima, requires a five-day trudge through some of the highest tropical jungle in South America, a haven for jaguars, spectacled bears and giant anteaters...
...week's end John Paul landed in Peru, the birthplace of liberation theology. Speaking in Lima, he attacked radicals who seek to undercut the Catholic hierarchy, and urged priests and nuns to forsake "passing ideologies." After four days in Peru, John Paul was scheduled to touch down in Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, before flying to Rome this week...