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...Estimated number of people who disappeared or died between 1980 and 2000 in Peru's Maoist rebel...
...meet scheduling targets. NASA promised to comply fully with the findings. Grim Reckoning PERU The government-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission claimed at least 69,000 people died or disappeared during two decades of rebel and state-sponsored violence, almost twice the previous estimates. The commission blamed the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path for more than half of the killings carried out between 1980 and 2000, and government troops for much of the rest. Most of the victims were Quechua-speaking peasants. Nuclear Traces IRAN The U.N.'s nuclear weapons watchdog confirmed that inspectors found particles of highly enriched uranium...
...sound. Anticipating by six months France's 2004 cultural "Year of China," the exhibit offers an overview of contemporary Chinese art, with nearly 100 works by 50 artists, ages 28 to 48, along with a spectacular 80-sq-m scale model of Beijing and a fascinating French collection of Maoist kitsch. While there's nothing truly groundbreaking in sight, this officially sanctioned show leaves no doubt about how far mainstream Chinese art has come since the days of the Cultural Revolution, and provides vivid proof that Chinese artists now have the right to be just as zany as their Western...
...APPOINTED. SURYA BAHADUR THAPA, 75, of Nepal's National Democratic Party (NDP); as Prime Minister, by King Gyanendra; in Kathmandu. Thapa replaces Lokendra Bahadur Chapa, also of the NDP, who was unable to negotiate an end to a seven-year uprising by Maoist rebels. Thapa might not be able to do so, either, given the pressure to produce results fast. Since ascending the throne in June 2001, Gyanendra has shown little patience with his Prime Ministers, firing not just Chapa but his predecessor Sher Bahadur Deuba...
...This bookstore is associated with the Maoist movement,” he says. “The end of the Soviet Union, which had been opposing Maoist principles, was a new chance...