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...eyes streaming, Belaúnde delivered an ultimatum: "I will wait half an hour. If by then I have not been inscribed, we will march." Odria grudgingly let him run. In the voting, Belaúnde lost to Manuel Prado, an aristocrat who had made a deal with APRA: legality and an end to repression in return for APRA votes. Even so, Belaúnde was defeated by only 110,000 out of 1,260,000 votes-and kept right on campaigning...
Calling for Tanks. Campaigning against APRA's Haya de la Torre and ex-Dictator Odria in the 1962 elections, Belaúnde promised land reform based on expropriation of the big estates, "worker-controlled industrial cooperatives, easy loans, housing and food." He sought support from anyone he thought would give it, cheered Peru's ultranationalists with an attack on U.S.-owned oil companies, then turned around and wooed businessmen with talk of foreign investment. Opposition goons in Cuzco turned one rally into a rock fight, bloodying Belaunde's head. When the ballots were counted, Bela...
...Belaúnde, and demanded a "tribunal of honor" to re count the votes. "In case the government does not comply," Belaúnde threatened, "we will be compelled to overthrow it." Watching from the wings, Peru's army regarded Belaúnde with suspicion. But it hated APRA with an unyielding fury. The generals sent tanks crashing through the wrought-iron gates of Lima's presidential palace, deposed outgoing President Manuel Prado, nullified the election, and set up their own four-man junta to rule Peru...
...year later, the military called new elections. This time Belaúnde won-with the help of the Christian Democrats, three small leftist parties, and moderates who saw him as the only saving compromise between APRA and the army. It was still close. Belaunde got 39% of the votes, just enough to satisfy the constitutional provision requiring at least one third of the total vote for election...
...talent: a 29-year-old Agriculture Minister, a 34-year-old Director of Roads, a 34-year-old Director of Planning. The army seems satisfied, and Belaunde has proved a deft politician in dealing with the opposition that controls 110 of the 185 congressional seats. "Our position," says an APRA leader, "is one of critical cooperation...