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...Baird, Attorney General-designate of all things, had employed two undocumented Peruvian aliens as household workers and failed to pay Social Security taxes on their salaries. To her credit, Baird disclosed this to Clinton before her appointment and to the FBI during its investigation. Her husband Paul Gewirtz, a Yale law professor, blamed the mess on bad legal advice, and the couple paid nearly $16,000 in taxes, penalties and interest...
Adrian E. Castro '96, whose background is Peruvian, says that people often tend to assume that "Hispanic" means "Mexican" or "Mexican-American," rather than perceiving that many Spanish speaking groups are included under that term...
...South America large areas of the Amazon Basin have been reserved for the exclusive use of Brazilian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Venezuelan Indians. The rights of tribes to conduct their own affairs, form their own councils and receive royalties for mining activities on Indian lands are gradually being recognized...
...biggest reward. He had promised to pacify the country by the time his term ends in 1995. But he lost international support in April, when he unilaterally dissolved Peru's Congress, shut down the courts and suspended the constitution -- largely in the name of thwarting Shining Path. Frustrated Peruvians approved, but the U.S. was so angry that it suspended aid. Now, in the congressional elections that Fujimori has called for Nov. 22, candidates who back him are expected to | win big, and they could help him enshrine strong presidential powers in a new constitution. The capture may also ensure...
While the Peruvian's ruthlessness is beyond question, his inflated legend may say more about the dreams of the impoverished people who revere him than about the man himself. He is hailed as a philosopher-warrio r, yet much of his best writing is shamelessly cribbed from Mao. As for being a warrior, while Guzman seems to have no compunction about ordering up the most foul atrocities, no one knows if he has ever killed anyone himself...