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...dealt a staggering blow to Fujimori, who has staked much of his political fortune on stamping out homegrown terrorism. At the same time, it lent worldwide recognition to a group of insurgents that Fujimori only two years ago dismissed as a spent force. With some 340 hostages still in rebel hands by week's end, Fujimori faced an appalling choice: confrontation or accommodation. Challenging the terrorists would risk hundreds of lives, including those of ambassadors from at least 11 countries. Giving in to rebel demands, however, would encourage similar hostage taking in the future and open the door...
...hopes that the initial hostage release presaged a weakening of the insurgents' will were dampened on Wednesday when the commander of the rebel operation announced that if the government did not open talks within one hour, he would start executing hostages. Fortunately, the deadline passed safely--a reprieve that seemed to underscore Tupac Amaru's reputation for favoring bargains over bloodshed...
Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua) resisted his uncle's executioners for years, but was finally captured in 1572, whereupon he was paraded on a mule through the streets of Cuzco and beheaded with a cutlass. Two centuries later, his name was appropriated by another Incan rebel who, after his own arrest, was torn apart by four horses in Cuzco...
...years later, Fujimori seized near dictatorial powers in a "self-coup" that savaged virtually every democratic institution in the country but enabled him to implement draconian security measures that eventually crippled both rebel movements. By 1993 Abymael Guzman, the Shining Path warlord whose face had not been seen in 25 years, was in jail and Polay had been recaptured. An elated Fujimori boasted to a Chilean reporter that "no one here in Peru any longer doubts that [Tupac Amaru] will be defeated this year...
...agenda for his last days other than trying to fight off prostate cancer, he isn't saying. Government officials say Mobutu's return will revitalize the army and restore Zairian pride, and turn the tide against the rebellion in the east. Yet although the evening news Monday reported that rebel leader Laurent Kabila had been "trembling" since he heard of the President's return, Mobutu brings no army with him. The outgunned Zairian forces have been consistently beaten and humiliated, and it seems unlikely that leadership alone can halt the rebel advance. What Mobutu's arrival is generating...