Word: apra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost from the start, sales paid the workshop's way. Soon Peruvian Government officials began to take an interest. Men like Haya de la Torre, chief of the dominant APRA party, dropped in for a look and stayed to listen. Pipe-puffing Truman Bailey's program for Peru's back-country Indians,,they agreed, made sense. Now big U.S. companies (Westinghouse for one) are bidding for exclusive foreign sales rights. Bailey, who will stay with the, project, is not rushing into the export field. But both he and the Peruvian Government, which needs dollar credits, are looking...
...spoken José Luis Bustamente Rivero, the moderate-minded poet and law professor who was elected President last June when leftist parties swept Peru's first really free election. The other, who probably did most of the talking, was leonine Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, boss of Apra (People's Party...
...from these protagonists, like a Greek chorus, was legendary Apra itself. Holder of most of the seats in Congress since last June's elections, Apra still breathed much of the fiery fanaticism that had made its legend. It still fought for a program of nationalization of land and industry, rehabilitation of the Indians, solidarity of all oppressed peoples and classes, as though it were revealed religion. It still tangled with Communists and conservatives in the streets with the ferocity and skill of some 15 years' underground discipline. And still Apra preferred to hold power without office. But when...
...having flexed its muscles, Apra was no longer so apprehensive. This week, as President Bustamante studied the bill submitted by Congress, the streets were Apra's. The Party's show of strength had given the lie to the anti-Apra pasquin pundit who had said: "They [Apra] could have been the masters of Peru. They had the girl in the automobile and the lights were out. And then the girl left them. For the crux of the matter is not to have the instrument but to know...
...Apra, it appeared, knew...