TITLE

Shining path on the offensive

AUTHOR(S)

Robbins, C.A.; Robinson, L.

PUB. DATE

February 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;2/24/92, Vol. 112 Issue 7, p51

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that Peru's Shining Path insurgency has been a constant but distant threat, since its inception in 1980. Tales of terrorist acts reached Lima from the Andean highlands; The government of President Alberto Fujimori and its 85,000 troops have not blunted the guerrillas; The Shining Path's strategy; The acts of the guerrillas.

ACCESSION #

9202243349

 

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