Word: apristas
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...hour of decision. Time & again APRA's husky leader had been outmaneuvered in the bitter struggle for power between Right and Left. This time APRA's enemies seemed ready for a finish fight. Even democratically minded President Jose Luis Bustamante, who was elected with Aprista votes, had joined the opposition (TIME, May 17). He was governing without a Congress...
...Manhattan hotel suite, Haya made his decision. Said he, after 73 days in the U.S.: "I must return and lead my people. This is the most fateful and dangerous hour of my life." Two days later, Haya landed in Lima and set off one of the biggest Aprista demonstrations in the party's history...
What Haya and a lot of his followers feared was assassination. Remembering what happened to Gaitan in Bogota, Haya had ordered the No. 2 Aprista, handsome Manuel Seoane, to stay in Chile for a while, to be ready to take over if something should happen to the Jefe Maximo (supreme chieftain). Most people in Peru agreed that, should Haya be assassinated, APRA's answer would probably be revolution...
...People's Will? On the night of his return, Haya stood on a platform in front of the Casa del Pueblo (House of the People), party headquarters. His left arm was outstretched in the Aprista salute, as thousands (APRA's estimate: 200,000; opposition estimate: 15,000) passed in review. While fireworks lighted the sky, the people chanted "Elections, yes! Tyranny, no!" (The day before, Bustamante had postponed congressional by-elections for a third time.) Then they jammed the Avenida Alfonso Ugarte to hear their leader...
...Guadalupe had petitioned and protested against dormitories so crowded that 120 slept in a single room, against wretched food, a shortage of water. They had demanded dismissal of the school's director as incompetent and dishonest. Finally brusque Education Minister Cristóbal de Lozada Puga. an anti-Aprista, visited Guadalupe, promised to investigate conditions, warned the students against political agitation. The students went on strike...