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...prison massacres bring an end to the violence that is becoming commonplace in Peru. On Wednesday a bomb concealed in a suitcase ripped through the roof of a packed train that was carrying tourists to the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu. Seven passengers were killed, including one American and three West Germans. As many as 40 other people were injured. Although no one claimed responsibility for the attack, it was widely seen as an attempt by the Shining Path to avenge the deaths of its imprisoned followers...
...Lost Cities" of the Andes. The remarkably well-preserved complex, known as Gran Pajaten, is thought to have been built by an advanced pre-Incan civilization almost 1,500 years ago. Archaeologist Thomas Lennon, head of the expedition, believes that once excavated, the ancient site may rival even Machu Picchu, one of the grandest Incan ruins...
Thirty-four miles southeast, the selfconsciously self-aware Anglos who live in Santa Fe like to talk reverently about "the energy that comes off the mountains." They mean spiritual, natural, ancestral energy, not the kind that could come off the high-tech Machu Picchu on the hill. In Los Alamos, the holistic weapons careerists in the cafeteria choose beansprouts and yogurt and reject actual nuclear war as theoretically implausible. It is downright rude in Los Alamos for an outsider-or even an insider-to raise questions concerning war or peace. The first causes moral qualm, the second unemployment...
...people travel? Judge it first, dispassionately, by its trophies. The tourists at the North Pole had cameras. Their slides from the adventure will be more exciting than millions of others to be assembled this season from the Grand Canyon and Peking and Machu Picchu and Nice...
Fifty miles to the southeast stood Cuzco, the administrative capital of the 15th century Inca Empire and, to the Incas, "the navel of the world." Just over the granite slopes to the 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...