Word: bela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry began his six-year term last year, the rumbles were as loud as an Andean avalanche. Backed by the army, Belaúnde scraped into power with a bare 39% of the vote, and ranged against him were two men capable of destroying his fragile government-old-time APRA Party Chieftain Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 69, and ex-Dictator Manuel Odría, 66. Both had been candidates against Belaúnde, ripped him as a "demagogue," even tried to pin a Red tag on him when leftists...
...best agrarian reforms for resettling 1,000,000 peasants on undeveloped land, a free-education bill that will take a youngster from elementary school through college, and a record $770 million budget to make a solid start on the programs. "When both sides want to agree," says Belaúnde reasonably, "agreement is no problem...
Chaos or Conciliation. Not so long ago, Peruvians would have hooted at the sentiment. Yet after last year's bitter election, Winner Belaúnde and Losers Haya and Odría had a simple choice -they could continue the vendetta, or they could pull together for the reforms all had promised in their campaigns. Belaúnde was shrewd enough to choose conciliation. Shortly before his inauguration, he won a general agreement from the opposition leaders for a broad program of social and economic reforms. But making it work was something else again. In Congress, Haya...
...with the Left. The whole experience apparently sobered both sides, and they have moved steadily closer ever since. Belaúnde meets frequently with Haya and Odría lieutenants, takes pains to buttonhole opposition Congressmen for arm-in-arm chats and friendly lunches at the presidential palace. The far-leftists who once supported Belaúnde are no longer welcome. In the past six months, his police have been jailing extremists all over the country, and his Acción Popular Party has expelled its former general secretary, Leftist Mario Villarán. Last April, when Peru...
...program will include Bela Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle...