Word: apristas
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...punctured public man will try to get his assailant off. Last week in Lima the court-martial sat from 8 a. m. until 4 a. m.-then sentenced to death both Puncturer Melgar and his accomplice, Juan Seoane, 32, whose brother Manuel is the Leader of Peru's Aprista (Opposition) Party. The sentences of death, imposed just as dawn was breaking, were ordered carried out by a firing squad at high noon the same day. Wearily the officer-judges clunked and clanked home...
With the populace crowding the streets as far as a block away from the Palace to hiss the retiring Junta, cheer their new executive, and in the absence of hostile Aprista Representatives, President Sanchez Cerro told his Congress what he hoped to accomplish in his five-year term-if he lasts that long. With a dig at imprisoned onetime President Leguia. he cried: "Our national faith has been committed to treaties which diminished our territory Our treasury has been exhausted and is suffering from the weight of a tremendous indebtedness contracted under the hardest terms. The safety of the State...