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...month-long campaign was marred by scattered acts of violence. Guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the fanatical Maoist revolutionary group that has terrorized the countryside since 1980, shot and killed an A.P.R.A. candidate for city council in Huancayo, 122 miles east of Lima. To the southeast, near the city of Ayacucho, Sendero insurgents threatened to cut off the fingers of campesinos found with stamp marks on their hands showing they had voted. But the anti-A.P.R.A. violence did not approach the level that it was feared would result after government troops killed at least 260 prisoners last...
...week the President again put his popularity on the line. Facing % the gravest crisis of his eleven months in office, Garcia said in a televised address that paramilitary police at one prison massacred some 30 to 40 inmates who had already surrendered. All of the victims belonged to the Maoist- oriented Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas, who have been waging a terrorist campaign since...
There is solid evidence that Nicaragua is actively supporting insurgencies in neighboring countries. The country maintains warehouses of arms that are available to every Communist insurgency in the region except Peru's Maoist Sendero Luminoso, according to Alvaro Baldizon, a former key official in the Sandinista regime who fled to Honduras last year. To minimize their involvement, says Baldizon, the Sandinistas require neighboring guerrillas to ferry their own arms shipments. Visiting guerrillas are trained at bases in Nicaragua, he further claims, and are even provided with free plane flights on Cubana Airlines to Havana for more specialized instruction...
...misattributions when he saw a copy of Mao's Unpublished Poems. "Not all these poems are written by Chairman Mao," he told a friend. "Many are mine." Chen called the apparent plagiarism to the attention of then Premier Chou En-lai, who was a defender of the people against Maoist radicals. Chou reportedly praised Chen for speaking out and immediately called for circulation of the work to be halted...
...Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) as an anti-Communist "war of liberation." Savimbi's supporters completely overlook the fact that the leader of UNITA has never professed an ideological preference for "democracy"; in fact, he has freely publicized his own preference for Stalinist-Maoist forms of totalitarianism. Savimbi is willing to ingratiate himself with whomever is stupid enough to help him install his own regime--and it appears that American interventionists have been duped by his disingenuous propaganda...