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...like this," says Bill Ivey, 32, who runs the store. Ivey grew up behind the trading post, where his father was the storekeeper. At the time, he recalls, Lajitas had an official population of just seven, four of whom were Iveys. Now a Houston company has developed a clapboard tourist town around an old cavalry post nearby, and the population of Lajitas is about 100. "Back then, all my friends lived across the river," says Ivey, a bachelor, who lives behind the shop. "Now I've got ^ a few over here as well." He has turned his kitchen into...
Outside is one of the post's main tourist attractions: Clay Henry, a beer- drinking goat whose pen abuts the shaded porch. A boozer of 14 years' standing, Clay Henry picks up an opened can or bottle in his mouth and downs the contents in seconds. "He has drunk as much as 24 cans in a single day," says Linda Garcia, a clerk at the post. CLAY HENRY FOR MAYOR, reads a sign on the fridge that holds the beer...
Cynthia McNamara is not your typical tourist. For more than 15 years, the 39- year-old Philadelphia-born anthropologist has prowled the back roads of Africa and Asia and lived for stretches in Spain and Iran. Last December, however, as McNamara was finishing up a two-year trek through South America, she stumbled into a nightmare involving Peruvian officials and Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the shadowy, Maoist-oriented guerrilla group committed to overthrowing the Lima government. Her terrifying sojourn ended two weeks ago, as abruptly as it had begun, but not before she had spent four months in a prison...
...began Dec. 4, when four policemen stopped her as she strolled through the southern Peruvian town of Ayacucho. At first they claimed they were conducting a passport check. Then, according to McNamara, the police searched her hotel room and confiscated "suspicious" articles -- medicine, vitamins, a ball of string and tourist maps. In the local jail, McNamara got a hint of the problems to come. "No one told me what was going on," she said. "But the word terrorismo drifted down the staircase...
...government has refused to comment on McNamara's case or explain why she was arrested. Free once again, McNamara will stay in Peru until her name is cleared. "It is outrageous that one can be a completely innocent tourist and be thrown into a dangerous situation like this," she said. "But I have many wonderful memories of Peru. Nothing can change that...