The World - News from Oct. 20, 1985
The Peruvian government protested the departure of five U.S. Marines accused of raping four women because the case was still under investigation, a foreign ministry statement said. Press reports said the Marines had met the women at a discotheque and later allegedly raped them in a rented house. The reports said that two of the women had retracted their accusations. The marines, who served as guards at the U.S. Embassy, left Lima Friday.
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