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...Lima, Peru...
...Lima's commuters were heading home at 7:30 p.m. when the city was rocked by a series of detonations so powerful that they rattled office windows 15 miles away. As seven high-tension pylons collapsed in the dynamite explosion, lights in the Peruvian capital (pop. 5 million) flickered, then failed. In the darkness, terrified inhabitants were shaken by 20 more blasts, including one that gutted a Bayer pharmaceutical factory, causing more than $100 million in property damage. It could have been much worse: police later discovered a mortar hidden under a bridge in range of the downtown Government...
Although the assault on Lima was the most daring raid yet by the guerrillas, nearly 3,000 government troops and police have been battling them for months in their rugged Andean stronghold of Ayacucho, 200 miles to the southeast. In the past three years, skirmishes between the insurgents and the army have killed more than 1,000 people. Those numbers are now sure to rise: in a sign of the government's new sense of urgency, 50,000 police have been deployed throughout the country...
...Belaúnde well knows, the most likely threat to Peru's fledgling democracy is actually from the right. In Lima's coffee houses, talk often turns to fears that the Sendero attacks will strengthen the hand of military hard-liners who would prefer a more authoritarian government. There have even been rumors of a military coup similar to the one that deposed Belaúnde in his first term as democratically elected President...
...animals organized into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and sppcies, but even in this age of home computers it is difficult to talk about reading, eating and sex in any ordered manner. Inter-texte, Friction rub, Ring or mousse makes at least as much sense as Florentine, Frozen, Identification, Lima beans and. But the second should go together while the first should not. The tables of contents from Le Plaisir du texte and from The Joy of Sex are not only in alphabetical order but in page order. Dr. Comfort having decided that the logical order of sex acts...