On Sunday, in the Andean village of Chaquichocha, he handed out 100 Winchester rifles to civilian militia groups.

Experts say one way the group obtains conscripts is to take over an Andean village and kill the men and women who do not join its ranks.

Many Andean villages are strongly opposed to the Shining Path and have called on the Government to issue them arms.

He would not have dared come to this Andean village 85 miles northeast of Lima without an army battalion when he first took office in 1990.

A6 The Shining Path kills 44 people in an Andean village.

It keeps the traditional architecture and life style of an Andean village, as the remaining cities in the valley where destroyed after the 1970 earthquake.

It deals with an Argentine Indian boy from an Andean village who goes off to the war and it was made in the villages of the region.

A freshly cut sapling blocked the sole entrance to this remote Andean village on a recent afternoon.

In some instances, the military has slaughtered entire male populations in the desperately poor Andean villages where the guerrillas derive most of their support.

Mrs. Vizueta was born in an Andean village, married at 13 and at age 25 entered a different world.