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...Harvard Square: Peruvian flute players on every corner...
...Peruvian commandos waited all night under the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, hunkered down in a winding, steel-braced tunnel complex. Loaded down with weapons, ammunition and body armor, they still had enough room to rest and try to sleep. The tunnels were the work of professional miners, and the troops could walk upright, two abreast, through lighted and ventilated chambers. In the morning, after a final planning session, their officers slipped through nearby buildings and into the tunnels to join the 140 army, navy and air-force special-operations forces underground for the attack. Lieut. Colonel Juan Valer...
LIMA, Peru: Family members of the 14 Tupac Amaru rebels killed in Tuesday's raid are protesting that they were not allowed to bury their dead. The Peruvian government said the rebels will be buried in various locations, in unmarked graves. Lawyers representing the families charge that the government is hiding the bodies to suppress evidence that some rebels were mutilated, while others were executed when they attempted to surrender. Graphic television footage of Peruvian president Fujimori?s visit to the embassy showed what appeared to be mutilated rebel bodies; one had neither head nor arms...
Padilla says his rooming group consists of students from Greek, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, African-American, Peruvian and Honduran backgrounds but was the result of friendship rather than any concerted effort toward diversity...
HAVANA: He's tried loud music, tough negotiating stands, the Catholic church and simply ignoring the situation, but nothing so far has helped Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori dislodge Tupac Amaru rebels who continue to hold 72 hostages. Now the President is trying to offer the rebels a new home. Fujimori was in Havana Monday to make a pitch to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who told him that Cuba would offer asylum to the rebels if all parties can agree on an arrangement. "We have discussed some points that I can't disclose, obviously, because our objective is to liberate...