Word: apra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first attempt to stir up resistance ended feebly. APRA, the leftist-turned-moderate party denied power in the June presidential elections, issued a call for a nationwide general strike that was to last until the presidency was restored. But Lima's electric lights continued to burn brightly, the buses rolled, most business went on as usual. Anti-APRA unions refused to honor the strike. More important, the generals in the palace were waging a shrewd, conciliatory campaign to win public acceptance...
...Army Commander Nicolas Lindley was named Prime Minister. Air Force General Jesús Melgar, the new Agriculture Minister, quickly scored with consumers by persuading butchers to knock down meat prices. The generals reaffirmed their intention to hold a simon-pure election next June. There were even stories that APRA, with which the generals have been feuding for three decades, had agreed to a modus vivendi: APRA would be allowed to continue as a party so long as it attempted no outright subversion. To every hat-in-hand delegation of businessmen, politicians and labor leaders that visited the palace, Perez...
...Prado, a conservative banker and aristocrat at the end of his term. The rebellion was against the government that would succeed him. For months the military had vowed that they would not permit the coming to power of Haya de la Torre, chief of the leftist-turned-moderate APRA party, which has been engaged in a bitter, sometimes bloody dispute with the army for more than 35 years. When Haya led the balloting by some 14,000 votes in the June 10 elections but fell short of winning the constitutionally required 33.33% of the total vote, a fury of haggling...
...before a crucifix in the palace, the four-man junta swore itself into office. The soldiers then suspended all constitutional guarantees, dissolved Congress, arrested Electoral Tribunal officials "for trial," and promised "clean and pure elections" on June 9, 1963. Haya and other leaders of his party fled underground. The APRA-controlled Workers Confederation declared a general strike for this week. Crowds that gathered before the palace to shout "Viva la libertad!" and "Down with the junta!" were beaten with truncheons by police or routed with tear...
...reached an "agreement in principle" to form a national union government. Together they would have a majority in Congress when it convenes next week to settle the split election. Rumors buzzed that Haya might agree to step aside in favor of Odria as President, but that Haya's APRA Party would have the major say in the Cabinet. A coalition government headed by two such diverse men as Haya, the fiery old revolutionary, and Odria, the conservative old strongman, would be a strange solution indeed. But it seemed to give more promise of stability for Peru than did Bela...