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...VLADIMIRO MONTESINOS Peru's former spy chief convicted of usurping office. Vladimiro said he wasn't seizing absolute power, just borrowing it for a little while...
...KASHEF, 50, acclaimed Egyptian film director; in Cairo. El-Kashef's best known film, Date Wine, won a Silver Prize at the 1998 Carthage Film Festival and was widely appreciated for its analysis of social relationships in conservative southern Egypt. DIED. FERNANDO BELAUNDE, 89, two-time President of Peru lauded as the "paradigm of democracy"; in Lima. Belaunde first came to power in 1963 before being overthrown in a 1968 military coup. After spending 10 years in exile, he returned to Peru to win the presidential elections by a landslide in 1980. Belaunde was also Peru's first democratically elected...
Days after receiving her cum laude degree from the College, Haley S. Surti ’01 died June 12 in a bus crash in Peru...
Surti was traveling in Peru as a researcher and writer for one of the Let’s Go travel guides, published by the Harvard Student Agencies. Her death was the first in the publication’s 40-year history...
...best known for his field work in the Brvu valley in Peru, which culminated in his 1953 article “Settlement Pattern Survey,” in which he proposed and explicated the method of tracing human occupation of regions by studying their effects on the landscape...