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Peru Fears Reemergence of Violent Rebels; Shining Path Movement Aided by Drug Traffickers, Police Allege

In the mountains around this jungle town recently weaned from an economy based on illegal drug traffic, the stirrings of a dormant guerrilla organization are raising fears that terrorism is regaining a foothold in Peru's countryside.

A column of rebels from the Shining Path, a radical Maoist movement that terrorized Peru in the 1980s and early 1990s, assaulted the army barracks in nearby Nuevo Progreso in June after harassing neighboring towns for several weeks. Although no one was killed, the attack coincided with what police officials here said has been a spike in drug cultivation in these eastern forests and a surge in guerrilla activity, including a Shining Path ambush in August about ...

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