Word: alberto
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...quarter of its $4 billion. Although both nations would like to cease their dependence on cocaine, they dare not press too strongly for fear of provoking civil unrest. In Bolivia the use of U.S. troops in 1986 to destroy drug labs sparked violent protests. Peru's new President, Alberto Fujimori, fearful of pushing recruits into the arms of the Shining Path guerrillas, has hesitated to unleash the full force of the military in interdiction efforts. Both countries prefer to tackle the coke problem economically by encouraging farmers to grow other crops...
...Evans, 62, was brought in to replace Joni Evans (no relation), one of New York's most high-powered book editors, who joined Random House in 1987. Her reassignment followed by just a year the ouster of the company's longtime chief executive, Robert Bernstein, who was replaced by Alberto Vitale...
...When Alberto Fujimori was running for President, he promised he would not try to revive Peru's disastrous economy with shock tactics. Last week Fujimori's two-week-old government unveiled an austerity plan that prompted protests and food riots. Overnight the price of gasoline jumped from 10 cents per gal. to more than $2, and food prices rose 300%. In Lima at least three people were killed by police and army troops, who were enforcing a state of emergency invoked two days before the measures were made public. The plan calls for taxes to be raised, import duties...
Lima went on a wild shopping spree last week as nervous consumers cleared store shelves of essential products like rice and oil in anticipation of shortages and steep price increases. The hoarding made an inauspicious start for President Alberto Fujimori, who began his five-year term last week without delivering an expected recovery plan to reduce rampant underemployment and curb the country's 3,000% 1989 inflation rate...
After handily defeating celebrity novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in last week's presidential runoff, Alberto Fujimori made it clear that he has no intention of administering strong medicine to Peru's exhausted economy. The bespectacled former university professor reaffirmed his campaign promise that he would avoid "shock" therapy that might hurt the poor...