Word: lima
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...unable to supply its own defense needs. Some contractors contend, for example, that the cuts could knock them out of certain lines of business by driving away their suppliers. In one case, the Pentagon would temporarily end production of tanks at General Dynamics factories in Warren, Mich., and Lima, Ohio, then resume work by the end of the decade to make a new . generation of tanks. But General Dynamics argues that about 15% of its 10,000 vendors in 48 states would probably go under in the meantime, while an additional 30% would be financially crippled. The firm also says...
When the presidential campaign started nine months ago, few people in Lima had ever heard of him. Yet as the votes were counted last week after the first round of balloting, Alberto Fujimori, 51, an agronomist of Japanese descent, was less than 3% behind Mario Vargas Llosa, 54, one of Latin America's most popular novelists and among Peru's most famous citizens. Because he is likely to win support from other opposition parties, Fujimori is expected to prevail in a runoff to be held in late May or early June...
...side from a noble warrior, but his family, like most of Peru's 80,000 Japanese immigrants, first lived in a dirt- floored adobe hovel after arriving from southern Japan in 1934. The second of five children, Alberto worked hard, went to college and eventually became rector of Lima's La Molina National University of Agriculture...
...came in 1985 when Alan Garcia Perez, then candidate for President, asked him for advice on rural matters. After the election, Fujimori became host of a state television talk show that had a wide audience in the countryside. This may help explain the unexpected following that Fujimori found outside Lima. In addition, he won the support of evangelicals. Although a Roman Catholic, like 94% of Peruvians, he enlisted evangelicals after founding his Cambio 90 (Change 90) party in October...
...vote, well ahead of the closest of his three opponents, Luis Alva Castro of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Because a candidate must attract 50% of the vote to win, a June runoff is likely. Vargas Llosa is expected to prevail, but once ensconced in the presidential palace in Lima he may look back upon his campaign days with longing. His party, Libertad, is one of three parties in the Democratic Front (Fredemo) -- an unruly coalition in the best of times -- which is unlikely to win a majority in the national congress. "That for me would be the worst scenario...