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...source of cocaine: Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian youths are rushing to become cokeheads. South American governments have been generally unsympathetic to U.S. jeremiads about the northward flow of South American drugs. But now they are seeing stylish cocaine abuse firsthand. And because the drug is so cheap in the Andes ($14 a street gram), it is more often smoked liberally in cigarettes than snorted...
...government is bringing "an end to the indiscriminate torture and murder of Salvadorean Citizens." Thus, the Report states. "There was a significant decrease in political violence in 1982." This may be true, but political killings, torture and disappearances continued at high levels in 1982. Twenty-six members of ANDES, the national teachers union were abducted on August 20, and late tortured and imprisoned. Eight labor leaders and six members of the revolutionary opposition disappeared in mid-October...
...status of pop father figure. All his early jobs gave him a Rube Goldbergian fascination with mechanical comedy; his plots were researched the way a schoolboy would do a term paper-by turning to the National Geographic and Scientific American. "If you're going to be in the Andes, it had to look like the Andes," he insists. "Some of those other artists put their characters in China, but they drew it as if it were Iowa...
...alone to drive them forward through the book. The Villa Golitsyn can be read once for fun and a second time for enlightenment. Read's seven earlier novels received critical praise but not the commercial popularity of Alive (1974), his nonfiction account of a plane crash in the Andes and the ordeal of its survivors. This book may bring his fiction the wider audience it deserves. Like his countryman Graham Greene, Read mixes espionage and religion, dishonesty and faith. His novel jangles the nerves and lingers in the mind...
...northwest lay Machu Picchu, a templed citadel so shrouded by mountains and mystery that no white man found it until 1911. Patallacta was between the two on a stone-paved Inca highway, part of the Royal Road that climbed and twisted more than 5,000 miles through the Andes. The town, with its 115 dwellings guarded by a hilltop fortress, probably served as "a pit stop for Incas traveling between Cuzco and Machu Picchu," says Ann Kendall, a British archaeologist who has spent 13 years studying the site. One thing is certain. Agriculture sufficient to support perhaps 5,000 people...