WORLD IN BRIEF : PERU : Troops Raid Medical School
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Peruvian troops raided the San Marcos University medical school, seizing homemade bombs in the second anti-guerrilla sweep in universities before nationwide municipal elections Sunday. Witnesses said that about 200 army troops ringed the campus in central Lima with trucks, sweeping through the groups and seizing Molotov cocktails and red flags of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a Maoist guerrilla group.
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