WORLD IN BRIEF : PERU : Independents Lead in Municipal Vote
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Independent candidates appeared to be the biggest winners in Peruvian municipal elections marked by little violence despite threats by Sendero Luminoso guerrillas to disrupt the vote. President Alberto Fujimori said elections were held amid tight security in all of Peru’s 1,600 districts in a vote he said was a clear defeat for the guerrilla group, whose name means Shining Path. In Lima, Peru’s capital, guerrillas destroyed a bus and then killed the driver.
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