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Manuel Prado, the scholarly, conservative patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family, last week won the presidency of Peru with the help of the country's big, left-wing APRA party. In a five-day unofficial vote count, former President (1939-45) Prado inched steadily ahead of Architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, a young amateur politician whose campaign had suddenly caught fire two weeks before election day; both of them left the government's official candidate, Hernando de Lavalle, far behind. Totals at week's end:* Prado 445,000, Belaunde 404,000, Lavalle...
...political master stroke as well. Two days before the election, Prado announced that "one of the first acts of my government will be to declare a general political amnesty and put an end to the proscription of political parties." In Peru the only significant proscribed party is APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance), which was thrown out of power and outlawed in 1948 by the present President, Military Strongman Manuel...
...APRA agreed. Odria chose Lavalle, and most other candidates dropped out. Only Prado and Belaunde stayed on as formal opposition candidates. By mid-May, when a mostly Aprista throng of 35,000 cheered Lavalle in Lima, Odria seemed on the verge, after all, of electing...
Deal that Failed. Only a detail remained : Odria had to get Cabinet approval for a decree permitting APRA to run candidates for Congress. He failed. The military officers in the Cabinet, whose recent prosperity might invite the scrutiny of a pro-APRA Congress, refused to sign. With that, the deal was off and the election was thrown wide open...
Officially, APRA now supports no candidate; to support Prado or Belaunde would be to invite the army to nullify the election on the grounds that an "illegal" party elected the winner. But Apristas individually can still vote-and APRA has told them to do so. Candidate Prado would welcome these votes, but the Apristas are cool to him. Instead, they have rallied to Belaunde. One night last week 60,000 citizens turned...