The World - News from April 20, 1989

Peruvian army troops and police raided two Lima universities, detaining 518 people on suspicion of leftist rebel activity and seizing a large cache of arms, the Interior Ministry announced. About 100 troops moved onto the grounds of San Marcos University before dawn and swept into student dormitories, witnesses said. The troops broke down doors, pulled sleeping students out of their beds at gunpoint and rounded them up in the center of the campus. The university has long been a center of support for Maoist Sendero Luminoso guerrillas. Other troops raided a teachers’ university, detaining dozens of students and employees, witnesses said.