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...crowd at the Lima soccer game [June 5], I included, howled against the referee and not at the police. We are tired of being robbed of international games because of a tradition that Peruvians are "nice" fans and not fanatics as in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Would not Yankee fans have done the same in an International World Series...
ANGEL CASTRO ANDRADE Lima, Peru...
Bleacher seats went for as much as 30 soles ($1.00) apiece, twice the regular rate and equivalent to a full day's pay for many a Peruvian laboring man. By game time, 50,000 fanatic soccer fans had crushed into Lima's National Stadium to howl for a home-team victory. Wild-eyed aficionados were already jubilant and confident...
...through the night, ambulance sirens wailed through Lima. By morning the toll stood at 293 dead, nearly 500 injured. President Fernando Belande Terry decreed a week of national mourning and suspended constitutional rights for 30 days to prevent leftist agitators from taking advantage of the situation...
Peruvians insist that smaller catches are due merely to a temporary shift in ocean currents, not overfished waters. But everyone agrees that too many people are out fishing. "Two or three years ago," says one Lima skipper, "you seldom saw more than 100 seiners fishing at the same time. Nowadays you see as many as 300 go to work on a school...