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...more dramatic than his words. After speaking at the Incan fortress of Sacsahuaman to 80,000 Indians, Pope John Paul chose the impoverished region surrounding Ayacucho to make his boldest political gesture since his visit to Poland in 1983. The area has been terrorized for four years by the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. Some 4,000 people have been killed, and human rights groups claim that 1,000 more have "disappeared" at the hands of government security forces. That heedless slaughter provoked the Pope last week...
...that may recur during the current journey. By the end of his 18,500- mile trip, John Paul will have flown from Venezuela to Ecuador to Peru to Trinidad and Tobago, delivered 44 other speeches, lunched with steelworkers, met upcountry Indians and visited a sector of Peru rife with Maoist guerrillas...
...young woman of Latin descent--she was extremely short and wore a headband and some kind of peasant dress--nudged my arm, looked up at me, and said, "We're Maoist utopians and we're prepared to fight to the death." I smiled politely...
...improvements were made necessary by the success of the reforms initiated during the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee, in 1978. At that meeting Deng effectively consolidated his power over China and set about rebuilding an economy laid waste by 20 years of Maoist experimentation. The new leader's major innovation was the "contract responsibility system" that permitted peasants, once they had turned over a relatively modest quota of their crops to the government, to sell the rest on the open market. The results have been stunning: record harvests in almost every crop since 1979, and agricultural output...
LAST YEAR the Peruvian writer had a chance to play this part himself when he headed a commission investigating the deaths of eight newsmen. The journalists had died trying to make contact with the kind of fanatics Vargas-Llosa doesn't like, the violent Maoist guerrillas of Peru's "Shining Path" group. Like the nearsighted reporter, Vargas-Llosa view of the ideologically motivated rebels of Canudos and elsewhere is that they offer not redemption, but damnation to an earthly life of violence and suffering. All we can do is record the events and to pray that they don't happen...