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IN 1963, FERNANDO BELAUNDE TERRY WAS elected president of Peru. The country was the play- thing of an intransigent oligarchy; Beladnde promised reforms.

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A New Opportunity For Democrat- ic Authority: Human Rights in Peru, an Americas Watch Report, September 1985, 44 pp. $5 (paper).
Peter Kornbluh & Joy Hackel
On January 14, 1986, the concept of low-intensity conflict emerged from the backrooms of the Pentagon and the hallways of right-wing think tanks into the spotlight of national at- tention. The occasion was a two-day Low Intensity Warfare Conference at Fort McNair, just outside Washington, D.
Allan Nairn
When the Reagan Administration took office, it faced a vexing problem. In Nicaragua, the United States had lost control of hemispheric territory for the first time since the fall of Cuba 22 years earlier.
As the debate over contra aid heated up, we were fortunate enough to re- ceive a copy of this stirring appealfor freedom from the Council for Inter- American Security (CIS). CIS presi- dent L.
George Black
PARIAHS OF THE WORLD, UNITE APRIL SEEMS TO BE A DANGEROUS month, when trigger fingers are itchier than usual. A month that has seen the bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi also marks the anniversary of some other unnatural disasters.
Raúl González José María Salcedo & Michael Reid
A special three-part report on the guerrilla war between the Peru- vian government and Sendero Luminoso. Peruvian reporter Ratil Gonzalez outlines Sendero's phi- losophy and reviews the Belatnde government's disastrous handling of the insurgency.
Carol Wise
IN PERU, AS IN MUCH OF LATIN AMERICA, economic crises tend to be cyclical, with each new crisis strongly resembling those that went before. In 1968, the cumulative failures and redistributive injus- tices of the country's development model came to a Carol Wise is a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University and is currently a visiting re- searcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos in Lima.