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...grievances as well as Communist leadership went into South America's anti-Nixon demonstrations, and Peru (pop. 9,900,000) has its share of troubles. Historically, Peru is a firm U.S. ally. Conservative President Manuel Prado is pro-U-S.-and so is the big, left-of-center APRA Party, which in a marriage of convenience put Prado into office two years...
...term, 1939-45.* On the same day the new Congress speedily and unanimously dismantled the dictatorship's legal structure. In a series of new-broom bills, the lawmakers declared an amnesty for political prison ers, swept away oppressive security laws, restored legality to the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA...
Prado's No. 1 political problem is likely to be how to get along with APRA, which helped him win because he promised to legalize outlawed parties. It was to crush APRA that Odria took over in 1948, but APRA leaders now claim that the party has outgrown its old socialistic, demagog ic, intolerant ways. If the party should again make itself too obnoxious to the army, a swing back to military rule would be all too probable...
Fast Switch. Surviving underground, APRA still controlled at least one-third of the vote. Party Chief Ramiro Prialé two months ago tried to persuade the government to restore APRA's legal status in exchange for a pledge to support the government candidate. Odría liked the idea, but his military Cabinet refused to go along with the deal. For his part, Candidate Belaunde angered Prialé by appealing for the votes of rank-and-file Apristas over Prialé's head. When he heard Prado's timely promise of amnesty, Prialé sent...
...Outlawed APRA could not run its own men for Congress, but pro-APRA candidates under the labels of lesser parties apparently won a majority of seats. As he claimed victory, Prado announced that he would submit to this Congress a bill to legalize APRA. Once the bill passes, he told interviewers, he supposed the APRA's famed founder, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, could return from foreign exile...