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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Belaúnde warily cracks down...
...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 Palace. Authorities believe that the terrorists intended to use it to hurl sticks of dynamite into the room where President Fernando Belaúnde Terry and his wife would be eating dinner...
...blazing hammer and sickle on a hillside outside of the city signaled that the attacks were the work of an increasingly active band of guerrillas who call themselves Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Last week Belaúnde reluctantly cracked down. For the first time since his democratically elected government took power in 1980 after twelve years of military dictatorship, Belaúnde, 69, declared a 60-day national state of emergency, suspending civil liberties and giving police broad powers to seize suspected guerrillas for up to ten days without charges. Within 24 hours, police had arrested 200 people, although...
...massacre was a direct affront to the liberal government of Peru's President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Ever since Belaúnde's election in 1980, the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a shadowy group of self-styled Maoist guerrillas, has tyrannized the area around the picturesque Andean town of Ayacucho, some 350 miles southeast of Lima. Under the pretext of defying capitalism and central authority, the insurgents have attacked isolated police stations and assassinated villagers suspected of informing against them. In January, Belaúnde sent a 3,500-man task force to Ayacucho to deter...
Such hoary superstitions do not seem to interest Belaúnde. The President wrote off the Easter massacre as "an insanity perpetrated by people who are psychologically unhinged." Although he has deployed his troops, Belaunde will need a more detailed and determined policy if he is to save Andean villagers from their ruthless oppressors...