The World - News from Oct. 3, 1989

Leftist Peruvian guerrillas exploded 12 bombs and launched attacks that left seven people, including three police officers, dead near a resort where a summit meeting of Latin American leaders takes place next week, officials said. Police blamed Maoist guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) movement for the attack on Palpa, about 50 miles from the resort of Ica. Rebels also killed the acting mayor of the northern provincial capital of Huamachuco as he stood in front of his home, police said. In another attack, seven police officers and four other people were wounded in a market in the capital, Lima. Sendero has killed about 20 mayors throughout Peru since late May in an effort to frighten people out of running for office in November elections.