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...against the Palestinian guerrillas. Last week there were indications that Mossad was on the offensive again. In Paris, possibly as a result of a Mossad tip, French counterespionage agents moved in on a sleepy-eyed, Spanish-speaking foreign visitor known only as "Carlos," who had in his possession forged Peruvian, Venezuelan and U.S. passports. He also had an arsenal of explosives and weapons similar to those used in a series of terrorist attacks by Palestinian, Japanese, Turkish and German groups in Europe. As he was being questioned, Carlos shot to death two French agents, as well as a Lebanese informer...
...Dorsey's Senate testimony, the speculation had been that most of the company's contributions had gone to Latin America. Last week the leftist military in Peru nationalized $2 million worth of Gulf service stations, accusing the company of "notorious, immoral conduct"-presumably meaning interference in Peruvian politics-even though there has been no evidence so far that Gulf made any contribution in Peru...
...impact of the world shortage on the United, States was accentuated by several other developments. The 1972 fish catch off the Peruvian coast was a failure, reducing the supply of protein meal available to European markets and in turn increasing the export demand for soybean and soybean meal in the United States. The failure of the peanut crop in South Asia and parts of Africa further contributed to the shortage of protein meals. The major devaluation of the dollar made the United States a particularly cheap place to acquire needed proteins and hence acted to increase the demand...
Voicing the frustration of many who fear the results of the spiraling arms trade, Peruvian Foreign Minister Miguel de la Flor
Brutal Naturalism. If Garcia Marquez is Latin America's Faulkner, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa is aesthetically, if not stylistically, its Dreiser. His first novel, The City of the Dogs, was a brutal slab of naturalism about life and violent death at a Peruvian military school for problem youth-a place not unlike the institution Vargas Llosa attended in the early 1950s. Officials at the school ensured the author a wide readership and international attention by publicly burning 1,000 copies of his book...