Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost him the wealthy conservatives who filled his campaign coffers in 1962. Even more damaging to his image, after last year's election, Belaúnde ordered his Congressmen-elect to renounce their seats, disguised himself as an Indian and raced off to the rebellion-prone city of Arequipa to throw up revolutionary barricades-an erratic performance that caused many moderates to question his sense of responsibility and prompted 34 of his Congressmen to bolt the party...
...since he finished 14,000 votes behind the controversial Haya de la Torre. Knowing that powerful army leaders fear Haya from his earlier days as a flaming leftist, he counted on the army to rally behind him. He journeyed from the capital of Lima to the mountain city of Arequipa, and after instructing a crowd of 6,000 supporters to raise barricades around his campaign headquarters he demanded the appointment of a "tribunal of honor" to revise the election results- otherwise he would fight. "In case the government does not comply," he cried, "we will be compelled to overthrow...
...Cabinet. A coalition government headed by two such diverse men as Haya, the fiery old revolutionary, and Odria, the conservative old strongman, would be a strange solution indeed. But it seemed to give more promise of stability for Peru than did Belaúnde's barricaded mob in Arequipa, drinking pisco and making bonfires at night to keep warm. One city official in Arequipa thought that Belaunde's mob "looks more like a public nuisance than a revolution...
...Pilot Rickards, a leathery South Dakota-born veteran of 33 years with the airlines, the experience was chillingly familiar: in 1931, as a young Panagra pilot, he and his plane were captured and held for several days in Arequipa, Peru, during an uprising. Rickards began to play for time. With the responsibility for the lives of 73 persons aboard the plane, it was a perilous game. Rickards blandly told the gunmen that the 707 did not have sufficient fuel to reach Havana and that he would have to make a refueling stop in El Paso. Leon Bearden readily agreed...
...Dudman added a few more details: "Middlemen sold some of the food to the starving at exorbitant prices. A wealthy landowner succeeded in keeping relief food out of [a nearby] valley so he could continue selling his own wheat at three times the normal price. Mills at Cuzco and Arequipa charged the drought-relief program 27? to 32? per 100 Ibs. for grinding grain when their normal fee was only 6?. Analysis of the flour showed it contained large amounts of dirt, added to increase the weight. Several lots of flour had to be discarded...