Word: peru
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...have instituted in the areas they control. Their use of torture and summary execution, their maiming of people with an education, and their targeting of any alternative authority?blowing up bridges, irrigation channels, post offices and schools?have earned them comparisons to Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge and to Peru's Shining Path...
...Estimated number of people who disappeared or died between 1980 and 2000 in Peru's Maoist rebel...
...NASA, insisting that without sweeping reforms at the space agency, "the scene is set for another accident." The report slammed the agency's informal chain of command and its courting of greater risk in order to 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...
...return, says the bank, which beats the 3% yield on standard savings accounts. The downside: you're locked into that rate for three years. The coffee option, offered in 13 of Rabobank's member institutions in the Netherlands, pays out organic, Fair Trade coffee from Ethiopia, Honduras and Peru. Next: CDs that yield doughnuts...
Hawkins’ studies also included analysis of the Nazca lines in Peru and the Amun Temple of Karnak in Egypt. In 1992, Hawkins gave an interview to Monte Leach of Share International in which he spoke of his research on crop circles and his discoveries that they contained ratios that related to musical major scales and contained undiscovered theorems of Euclidian geometry...