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...Rise of Apra. Can Peru go on indefinitely with its 2,000,000 coastal population in the 20th century and its mountain people still in the 16th? Yes, say the country's conservatives, who center around the so-called "Forty Families"-the old, cultured, inward-looking class who own the coastal haciendas and most of the businesses and industries of Lima. But in the '20s, a group of left-wingers at San Marcos University (which is 85 years older than Harvard) saw in the national division the makings of an extremist mass party. A silver-tongued intellectual named...
...Navy changed its mind, moved the 58-year-old battleship to Apra Harbor, Guam, where, towards the end of the Pacific war, she did duty as a breakwater and ammunition ship. Shorn of superstructure and stricken from the Navy's active list, she still lies in Guam awaiting further orders...
...Lima: "All's well that ends well." In Mexico he told the friends who flocked around that he had passed the silent years by writing three books and reading thousands of them. Once the organizer of Latin America's only Indian mass movement, the left-wing APRA Party, Haya now bubbled with plans to write, speak and travel. Said he: "I consider myself lucky to be alive . . . Now I must start all over again." Today, Haya's party is shattered and outlawed. Peru's President Manuel Odria, who dealt the Apristas their knockout blow, has stabilized...
...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...
...Lima the junta sent secret police scurrying into the capital's luxurious Club Nacional, arrested dozens of "plotters." Blamed for the uprising were Montagne's small, conservative Civic Action party, the outlawed, impotent APRA party, and the surprised, feeble Peruvian Communists. Triumphant Odría told his countrymen: "The people of Peru have shown their unanimous support in my favor. The Arequipa rebellion was merely the exploitation of children and unwise ones who were tossed to sacrifice by wicked people." His onetime electoral rival Montagne was under arrest, awaiting deportation. In next month's election...