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...Peru, American officials are concerned about leftist guerrillas who may be working with narcotics traffickers to end a U.S.-financed program that hires Peruvian workers to destroy coca plants, the leaves of which are used in the manufacture of cocaine. Two weeks ago anti-drug laborers were attacked in the middle of the night in a house where they were sleeping. According to an eyewitness account, about four unidentified men burst into the building and began firing shotguns and revolvers. At least 15 workers were killed and three were wounded...
LAST YEAR the Peruvian writer had a chance to play this part himself when he headed a commission investigating the deaths of eight newsmen. The journalists had died trying to make contact with the kind of fanatics Vargas-Llosa doesn't like, the violent Maoist guerrillas of Peru's "Shining Path" group. Like the nearsighted reporter, Vargas-Llosa view of the ideologically motivated rebels of Canudos and elsewhere is that they offer not redemption, but damnation to an earthly life of violence and suffering. All we can do is record the events and to pray that they don't happen...
...breakthrough represents a new stage in the ancient battle against malaria and the insect that carries it, the female Anopheles mosquito. Peruvian Indians discovered the first important weapon: the bark of the Cinchona tree. For centuries the bark and its derivative, quinine, were the only means of preventing and treating malaria's waves of fever, which can recur erratically and weaken victims for years. Gin and tonic, originally made with quinine, is said to have been developed by British colonialists as a way of making their daily doses more palatable...
...state visit to Brazil late last month, Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry was asked when he planned to lift the state of emergency in the Andean highlands, imposed in October 1981 after repeated terrorist attacks by Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas. Replied Belaunde: "When not a drop of blood is spilled for 30 days." Last week the rebels made a gruesome response: the bloodiest attacks around the country since Sendero's emergence as a violent force in 1980. Armed with submachine guns, rifles and dynamite, the guerrillas attacked police posts, army patrols, bridges, power stations and telecommunications lines...
...early as this spring, according to Interior Minister Luis Percovich Roca, Peruvian police knew that a June offensive was being planned. Numerous arrests were made, and explosives and weapons were confiscated. But those precautions were insufficient. Percovich called last week for public cooperation to combat the guerrillas. Police resources, he admitted, are limited. Said he: "We cannot be everywhere...