Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 and other crops. Yet the seemingly apolitical program became the target of repeated assaults led by the Maoist guerrillas known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) or a related leftist group called Puka LLacta (Red Fatherland). Last July the terrorists drove into the project's central village of Aucayacu, ordered residents to stay indoors and sprayed the town with bullets, killing five policemen. Three other policemen were ambushed and killed...
...more dramatic than his words. After speaking at the Incan fortress of Sacsahuaman to 80,000 Indians, Pope John Paul chose the impoverished region surrounding Ayacucho to make his boldest political gesture since his visit to Poland in 1983. The area has been terrorized for four years by the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. Some 4,000 people have been killed, and human rights groups claim that 1,000 more have "disappeared" at the hands of government security forces. That heedless slaughter provoked the Pope last week...
...odder beguilement. A nine-hour Saturday detention class is called for five balky students: a jock (Emilio Estevez), a grind (Anthony Michael Hall), a punk (Judd Nelson), a deb (Molly Ringwald) and a feral cutie (Ally Sheedy) who eats Cap'n Crunch sandwiches and comports herself like a baby Maoist from May '68. They sit around and rank one another. They strike out, then strike bargains, then strike sparks of affection. By the end they are one big underage encounter group...
...that may recur during the current journey. By the end of his 18,500- mile trip, John Paul will have flown from Venezuela to Ecuador to Peru to Trinidad and Tobago, delivered 44 other speeches, lunched with steelworkers, met upcountry Indians and visited a sector of Peru rife with Maoist guerrillas...
...young woman of Latin descent--she was extremely short and wore a headband and some kind of peasant dress--nudged my arm, looked up at me, and said, "We're Maoist utopians and we're prepared to fight to the death." I smiled politely...