Word: peru
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...month Castroite terrorists have been raising havoc in Peru's remote central highlands. One band of 60 men invaded two big cattle estates near Concepción, burned homes and barns, destroyed a dairy plant and dynamited two bridges nearby. Other guerrillas raided two police outposts, stole arms and ammunition, killed seven police before disappearing into the dense Andean jungles. Last week the terrorists carried their vicious little war to Lima itself. One night a small bomb exploded in Lima's fashionable Club Nacional and another erupted outside the nearby Crillon Hotel. Remarkably, only three people were hurt...
...Peru, one of the really hopeful countries in the hemisphere (TIME cover, March 12), seemed safe from the Castroite threat. The country's economy is strong, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has been adding new roads, schools and communications lines in the interior to reduce the backlands poverty and remoteness that breeds revolutionaries. After last week's bombings, Peruvians were jarred into a sharp new awareness that they are not immune...
This is the nightmare of Peru's able President Fernando Belaunde Terry...
Last week Belaunde's fears had substance in at least one region of Peru - the mountainous district of Andamarca, 160 miles northeast of Lima. One afternoon, a band of about 60 guerrillas wearing Cuban-style, olive green uniforms and armed with submachine guns, invaded two big cattle estates, burning houses and barns, destroying a butter-and-cheese plant and cutting telephone wires. Then, six of the guer rillas rode to a mine, hijacked a mining company truck carrying 20 cases of dynamite, and blew up two bridges near the village of Concepcion. Other guerrillas attacked at least two other...
...outbreak of systematic guerrilla warfare did not catch Belaunde's government entirely by surprise; his intelligence chiefs have been warning for the past ten months that Peru's Communist Party has been reorganizing for agitation, sabotage and insurrection. After last week's incidents, the government ordered 400 civil guards to track down the guerrillas and alerted an army battalion to move into the area if the Communists were spotted. Belaúnde's long-range hope is to contain the guerrillas until his own self-help housing, health, and road-building plans begin to make...