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...disaster brought at least a temporary reconciliation between Washington and Lima. For almost two years, the U.S. and the Peruvian nationalist junta led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado have been feuding over Peru's seizure of U.S. properties. After an unfortunate initial delay, the U.S. won warm thanks from the Peruvian generals for its effective aid. From the U.S.'s Southern Command in Panama came a 40-man rescue team three days after the quake, and giant Chinook helicopters from the carrier Guam lifted supplies into remote Andean villages that otherwise were completely cut off from the outside...
...warm afternoon last week, as the citizens of Lima talked excitedly about the opening of the World Cup soccer tournament in Mexico City, an all-too-familiar convulsion shook the city, accompanied by what sounded like the muffled beat of a million drums. The early news seemed reassuring. In all of Lima, only three persons had died, two of heart attacks, and only a few old houses had been toppled. As the hours wore on, however, alarming reports began to arrive from the northern departments. The seaport of Chimbote lay in ruins. The departmental capital of Huar...
Hundreds of survivors were rescued and flown to Lima for treatment. But in the Andean foothills, thousands of others, despairing of early rescue, were trying to make their way by foot toward the coast. Some were already looking ahead. "We will have to rebuild it again," said a native of the village of Ranrahirca, which was destroyed by a lesser earthquake in 1962 and rebuilt with government aid. "But maybe not in the same place. Every huayco that drops into our valley from the Cordillera Blanca passes through our village...
...write and would never make it as a reporter. For a long time, it seemed that the chairman was at least half right. As a cub reporter on the Toledo Blade in 1957, Fitzpatrick freelanced a story for a competing paper. He was fired. At his next job, in Lima, Ohio, he recalls that "I was writing a column in which I said that bowling was stupid and that bowlers were stupid. The publisher told me I couldn't say that any more. So the next morning, I wrote another column saying how stupid I thought bowlers were." Again...
...over in a matter of minutes. The police van braked to a stop, 40 civil guards in tan shirts and steel helmets jumped out and, while most of Lima slept through a foggy March dawn, Peru's leftist military junta took over two opposition newspapers, the morning Expreso and evening Extra. The remaining opposition Lima daily-La Tribuna-was then reduced to a mimeograph edition when the regime embargoed its presses...