Abimael Guzman, a professor at a provincial uni- versity in Ayacucho, high in the Andes, the Shining Path took up arms in 1980. Its leaders scorn both the Soviet Union and China, and receive no aid from either. The group is responsible for some 2,500 terrorist at- tacks nationwide-on factories, power plants, embassies-and 615 deaths. It enjoys growing popularity in the mountains around Ayacu- cho; the number of active terrorists has jumped from just two or three hundred in 1980 to perhaps 3,000...