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Belaúnde's chief political rival, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 69, the fiery APRA patriarch who was edged out in the 1962 elections, dismisses cooperación popular as "an old Communist way of making people work-romantic but not practical." Many others -including U.S. Ambassador J. Wesley Jones-are impressed by Belaunde's vision. "Everything the President has suggested makes sense," says Jones. "The question is only where to put what on the scale of priority...
...Terry began his six-year term last year, the rumbles were as loud as an Andean avalanche. Backed by the army, Belaúnde scraped into power with a bare 39% of the vote, and ranged against him were two men capable of destroying his fragile government-old-time APRA Party Chieftain Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 69, and ex-Dictator Manuel Odría, 66. Both had been candidates against Belaúnde, ripped him as a "demagogue," even tried to pin a Red tag on him when leftists joined his coalition party. Following their defeat, Haya...
...major opposition parties in Congress. But in December municipal elections, his Acción Popular party won a clear majority throughout the country. And now with national sentiment on Belaúnde's side, the opposition has more reason to cooperate. As a leader of APRA, Peru's most powerful opposition party, puts it: "We are the loyal opposition-or better, our position is one of critical cooperation...
Beaten in general elections last June, Peru's worker-peasant APRA Party last week fell back on a familiar maneuver: a 24-hour general strike. The occasion proclaimed by leaders of APRA's 500,000-member Confederation of Labor was "indignation" over the dismissal of 300 workers at a Lima ceramics factory and police killings of two Indian peasant squatters in the backlands. Neither seemed quite enough to justify a nationwide strike, and few Peruvians were taken in. The strike was obviously intended to show President Fernando Belaunde Terry that APRA, though outvoted, was still too powerful...
Belaunde quickly proved that he too could be adept at maneuver. The night before the strike, his government made a fast deal with an influential, Communist-dominated division of APRA's own union, extracting a no-strike pledge in return for settlement of the ceramics factory dispute. The rest of the union, loudly deploring Belaunde's alliance with Communists, went ahead with the general strike. But the government counter-maneuver left the union off bal ance. In Lima, where the strike would count most, business went on almost as usual-the union was able to pull out only...