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...Alliance for Progress, arrived in Lima last week to meet Belaunde and to discuss Peru's request for $80 million in aid, based on reforms being made. Both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate quickly approved the program. But the vote, said a spokesman for the opposition APRA Party, "merely extends to the government a line of credit for its intentions. Each of its projects will have to be debated together with similar projects presented by the opposition parties in order to seek a compromise...
...Down. The months in between have produced only minor shifts. And yet this time they could prove decisive. Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 68, founding father of the revolutionary-turned-reformist APRA party, still retains much of his old magic for Peru's peasants and workers. But he disillusioned many supporters in 1962 by trying to make a quick postelection deal to share power with an old enemy, ex-Dictator Manuel Odría. Important unions that once turned out a solid APRA vote have been taken over by far-leftists, who have no liking...
Pressured Promise. Politically, Pérez Godoy was generally in favor of carrying out the promised June elections even if they should result in a victory for the leftist-turned-moderate APRA Party of Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre. The other junta members, more responsive to the sentiments of old-line army men who remember bloody clashes with the Apristas in the 19305, were not so sure. But Peruvians outside the barracks, particularly Haya's main rivals-nationalistic Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry and ex-Army Strongman Manuel Odria-insisted that the promised elections...
...question was how much the junta itself had helped to accent the crisis. In their steadfast enmity toward the leftist but anti-Communist APRA party of Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the military men had shown a peculiar tolerance for the Communists, who were competing for the same peasant and laborer following. Several Red leaders were released from jail, known Communists were appointed to labor councils. Emboldened by this freedom, the Reds had gone about their violent errands with such a will that the junta could no longer ignore them...
...Army Commander Nicolas Lindley was named Prime Minister. Air Force General Jesús Melgar, the new Agriculture Minister, quickly scored with consumers by persuading butchers to knock down meat prices. The generals reaffirmed their intention to hold a simon-pure election next June. There were even stories that APRA, with which the generals have been feuding for three decades, had agreed to a modus vivendi: APRA would be allowed to continue as a party so long as it attempted no outright subversion. To every hat-in-hand delegation of businessmen, politicians and labor leaders that visited the palace, Perez...