Word: bela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERU. Some $468.9 million in economic aid and $113.1 million in military assistance have bought technical and professional educations, better roads, better public administration, improved tax systems. Few Peruvians are grateful-the conditions on the loans, it seems, are irksome. President BelaÚnde's thought for today is: "Suppose that more or less the same demands had been made by the Spanish crown when Columbus applied for aid; we might have remained undiscovered until...
Joseph Szigiti will talk about his long friendship with Bela Bartok and play excerpts from their recordings at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Paine Hall...
...After first dismissing the terrorists as no worse than bandits, Belaúnde reacted sharply. Declaring all-out war on the extremists, he suspended constitutional guarantees for 30 days-banning public assembly, allowing police to search homes without warrants, and permitting the indefinite detention of suspects...
...hours later, police began rounding up more than 300 known Communists and extremists belonging to the pro-Communist National Liberation Front. Meanwhile, Belaúnde ordered 100 anti-guerrilla commandos and 500 infantrymen into the central highlands, along with helicopters, Canberra bombers and light artillery...
...Luis de la Puente, a wily, pro-Castro attorney who is wanted in Lima for a 1962 murder. By week's end, government troops had already captured one small guerrilla group near Cuzco along with 16 Czech-made submachine guns and three cases of rifles. Belaúnde's government sounded determined to track down the rest of the terrorists. "We will proceed with utmost energy," promised Premier Fernando Schwalb, "and with all means at our disposal...