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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1985
Page
4
Marxist guerrillas bombed Lima with twenty blasts including the U.S. ambassador's residence as police rounded up nearly 3,500 suspects. The attacks caused a partial blackout of the city and heightened security measures nationwide.
Police accuse Maoist group Sendero Luminoso of bombing attacks across Peru that damaged the Chinese and Soviet embassies, a cultural institute, four police stations, San Marcos State University, and an ambassador's residence. No injuries were reported as one stick exploded by a pool edge, another fell into water. The violence may mark the rebels fifth anniversary of their war begun in May 1980.
During an Army war game 500 soldiers fired on an area causing 38 cattle to die and 36 to be injured then euthanized. Rancher Martin Jaureguy loses Herefords and Anguses valued at about 600 dollars each. base leases part of his land and may compensate.
A brush fire in the Everglades overheated a 500 kilovolt line, cutting power to about 4.5 million in South Florida. Utilities restored most service by midafternoon. 90 percent by 3 p.m. EDT. Metrorail halted, traffic lights failed, and evacuation routes faced congestion. Miami, Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties affected.
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