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WITH ITS FOUNDER JAILED more than a year ago and many of its leaders captured, the Shining Path insurgency is badly crippled. But to Peruvian officials, Sendero Luminoso remains a frightening specter. Norwegian-born filmmaker Marianne Eyde discovered that after she completed a film about Sendero in September 1992. For a year, the national film board nervously weighed the $150,000 movie's "artistic merit," and Eyde voluntarily screened You Only Live Once (La Vida Es Una Sola) for Peru's top military officers so they could see it was not pro-Sendero. Retired General Sinesio Jarama liked...
...then the great and glorious day will dawn when Cantabrigians all--every man, woman and child--will rise up under the mighty spell of the Peruvian pied pipers, topple this monstrosity and abandon it in the trashheap together with Marx, Lenin and The Shops at Harvard Yard...
...reasons for such an inconsistency are clear, such as the nasty habit of Peruvian drug police to end up in vats of hydrochloric acid in the Upper Huallaga Valley and the tendency of entire Latin American governments to be completely and totally corrupted by drug lords...
LIKE A BIG-GAME HUNTER DISPLAYING HIS PRIZE catch, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori paraded Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso before the people. Guzman, wearing prison pinstripes and surrounded by hooded guards, was placed in a cage aboard a gunboat and transferred from his island prison to a maximum-security windowless cell at a navy base on the mainland. Fujimori staged the media event to draw attention to the successes of his war on terrorism and to justify his "government of emergency" declared a year ago. The boasting did not go unanswered. In a violent response, Shining Path guerrillas...
...wingbeat as gossamer and normally inconsequential as a Peruvian servant's lack of immigration papers stirred up storms over an Administration at the moment it was moving into the most powerful office in the world. Wild disproportions raged in from unexpected quarters. The famous double nanny disturbances and the fierce electrical displays over the issue of gays serving in the military had the effect of making Republicans, at least, cheerful for the first time since November...