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...registered voters submitted themselves to the most elaborate anti-fraud safeguards in the country's history and then cast their votes for a new President from among three leading candidates: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 67, founder of the longoutlawed, Marxist-turned-moderate APRA Party; Fernando Belaunde Terry, 49, a wellborn, highly nationalistic architect who narrowly lost the 1956 presidential elections; and Manuel Odria, 64, Dictator-President of Peru from 1950 to 1956, who is remembered for both his strong arm and liberal public works...
...APRA Chieftain Haya de la Torre stared in disbelief at the TV screen. The election was not going as well as expected, but APRA's figures did not bear out Belaunde's snap victory claim. "Wait till the solid north comes in," Haya muttered. "Then we'll see." He went to a phone. A few minutes later, he came back, pointed at the TV set and said...
Blessed & Cursed. In the current campaign, Haya and APRA are working hard to live down their violent past. Declaring himself a member of the non-Communist left, Haya renounces Communism in his speeches, tells his Apristas that democratic reform, foreign investment and massive U.S. aid are the only cures for Peru's ills-an illiteracy rate of possibly 60%, a life expectancy of 45 years, an average peasant wage of $53 annually. Yet the conservatives still call APRA Communist, the Communists call it reactionary, and politicians of all shades spend more time attacking it than speaking for themselves...
Through its well-organized political machine, APRA controls the country's 500,000-member Workers' Confederation and the 1,300,000-member Peasants' Federation. Haya predicts that he will win with more than 1,000,000 votes out of an expected 2,000,000. But Fernando Belaúnde, the 1956 loser, is giving APRA a hard race. Tirelessly stumping Peru's 144 provinces, he preaches much the same economic and social reform as does APRA, draws huge crowds from all those who hate and fear APRA. His opinions about the rabid left hardened abruptly...
...balance is delicate, and any last-minute deal among supporters of the three contenders might well determine the outcome on election day. If APRA and Haya de la Torre should win, they face the possibility that Peru's military men, emboldened by the Argentine example, will attempt to annul the election. Odria already accuses APRA of trying to rig the voting. "If the government allows fraud, there will be deeds not words," shouted Odria at a rally in Lima. And last week the army, which is charged with supervising the election, reported the discovery of 1,591 falsified voting...