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- THE WEEK, Page 24WORLDEt Cetera
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- NO QUARTER
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- The latest offensive by Peru's Shining Path guerrillas has
- reached unprecedented ferocity -- and has focused on Lima,
- which has never experienced such a brutal wave of attacks.
- Starting in mid-July with a car bomb that killed more than 20
- people in the capital, the campaign has flared into a full-scale
- blitz. Last week bombs destroyed several police stations, a
- private research center and the Bolivian embassy. Though
- President Alberto Fujimori, who canceled his trip to an
- Ibero-American summit in Madrid, has promised a "battle without
- mercy," his police and army seem helpless.
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- CASH LANDING
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- A federal jury in New York City made the first award to
- relatives of a victim of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
- over Lockerbie, Scotland -- and it was a whopper. The family of
- Robert Pagnucco, an assistant general counsel at Pepsi Co and
- one of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing, was
- granted $9.2 million. A previous trial had held Pan Am
- responsible for its lax security. Although the defunct airline
- plans to appeal that finding, its insurers could face more
- million-dollar verdicts in the 200 or so compensation cases
- brought by the families of other victims.
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