World IN BRIEF : PERU : Defense Minister Reportedly Quits
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Peruvian Defense Minister Julio Velasquez Giacarini submitted his resignation five days after his predecessor was shot to death at a Lima shopping center, official sources said. President Alan Garcia had not decided whether to accept the resignation, the sources said. Gunmen believed to be leftist guerrillas killed then-Defense Minister Enrique Lopez Albujar on Tuesday. The attack brought fresh criticism of Garcia’s handling of the nation’s growing leftist uprising.
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