LIMA : Round 2 In Peru

Peruvians elect their next president Sunday, and the winner is certain to be a man making his first run for public office.

Agronomist and university administrator Alberto Fujimori, a centrist with vaguely defined proposals for economic reform, is the surprise front-runner in the two-man runoff ballot. Famed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, offering a more detailed--and harsher--program for a pure free-market economy, is trailing in the polls but narrowing the gap.

Whoever wins will confront galloping inflation, a leftist guerrilla war, abuses of human rights and widespread coca cultivation in the jungle interior.