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...liked it-it looked really neat, " said Nestor Tomycz '01, an art fan who had browsed in the new prints section with his parents...
...midafternoon the hostages would be in upstairs bedrooms and the rebels who were holding them prisoner would have started their regular makeshift soccer game in the spacious ground-floor living room. It went just that way. At about 3 p.m. the listeners heard eight guerrillas, including their commander, Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, stash their rifles in a corner and begin a shouting, thumping game. The army flashed the word to President Alberto Fujimori, who was across town at a divorce hearing with his estranged wife Susana. He instantly gave the order to attack. "We knew," he said later, "that...
LIMA: As Alberto Fujimori toured the ambassador's residence before television cameras on Wednesday, he paused for a moment over the dead body of Nestor Cerpa, lying face-up on a curved staircase in the mansion's main hall. Among the bullet holes that riddled Cerpa's body was a single one in the forehead. Having erased with finality the multiple humiliations of the 126-day hostage crisis, Fujimori can credibly claim to have made good on his 1995 re-election campaign vow: to squash terrorism in Peru. Asked at a Thursday press conference whether the country had seen...
...remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help us define the eventual sequence of talks." But Fujimori, saying his "cards are on the table," has showed no sign of budging on the one seemingly non-negotiable demand of rebel leader Nestor Cerpa: the release of his Tupac Amaru comrades from Peruvian jails...
...Juan de Amancaes: he came out to wave last week, but volunteered in front of Fujimori that he hasn't had steady work in almost a year. Or Jorge Alvarado, 24, a semiemployed accountant in Lima's lower-middle-class Pueblo Libre neighborhood. "I don't agree with Nestor Cerpa taking hostages," he said. "But the embarrassing thing about this crisis is that Cerpa has become a sort of interlocutor between Fujimori and our economic problems. Maybe Fuji will listen to us a little more after this and not be so rigid...