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Relief efforts in Peru have been hampered by a strike among health-care workers. When Bolivia tried to send doctors to the Andean village of Puno, where an outbreak was beginning, the medical team was asked to stay home. Finally the strikers allowed a limited number of Bolivian technicians to disinfect Puno's sewage pipes with chlorine...
...Congratulations! You are the winner of a weekend retreat in the Bahamas. Enclosed please find your champagne-flight boarding pass." So began an apparent promotional letter from Puno Aero Tours to some 200 seemingly lucky Floridians. On the appointed day, the letter continued, the winners would be picked up for a ride to the airport in limousines. They were indeed picked up -- by federal marshals masquerading as chauffeurs. The would-be vacationers, handcuffed within moments after climbing into the cars, were all fugitives, wanted on charges ranging from embezzlement and grand theft to rape. Puno Aero Tours was a front...
...vacation sting was part of an eleven-week Florida roundup in which the marshals and local police forces successfully tracked down 3,816 fugitives. Although most of the arrests resulted from more conventional police tactics, the Puno ploy and similar lures helped to collar violent criminals without anyone being injured. "Scams usually work very well with this type of fugitive," said U.S. Marshal Jerry Bullock, "because their entire lives are devoted to getting something for nothing...
Father Dan came by his fiscal acumen purely through "priestly duty." On his first assignment in Peru in 1950, in the poor (per-capita income: $65) Andean town of Puno, he decided that what his peasant charges needed was financing as well as faith. In 1955, he organized the Puno Credit Union-Peru's first-with 23 members and $25 capital. While private banks were paying 4% interest on savings and lending at 20%, Father Dan's union paid 6%, loaned at 12%. Before long, the villagers were depositing what cash they had in the union...
...span, hugging the eastern slopes of the Andes and connecting with access roads pushing up from Peru's west coast. Belaúnde's engineers are already pushing penetration routes from the coastal town of Pisco to the mountain town of Ayacucho, from Nazca into Cuzco, from Puno down the rugged eastern slope of the Andes into the southern montana. Estimated cost: $400 million. Like Juscelino Kubitschek's Brasilia, the project will be years justifying itself. "But you know," ventures one Peruvian, "in a hundred years we might look awfully foolish...