Word: bela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of it, Peru last week had as much reason for rejoicing as Argen tina. After free elections, the military junta that had been running the country for more than a year stepped peacefully aside for the inauguration of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 50, a vigorous and ambitious architect. Peru's economy, left in good shape by the sound policies of ex-Premier Pedro Beltrán, and well tended by the interim military government, was in blooming health. The sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America. Foreign reserves stand...
...time, Belaúnde feels, to be gin bridging the deadly gulf between Peru's haves and have-nots by develop ing the nation that lies beyond the cities and the factories. During his campaign, Belaúnde journeyed to the remote out back of eastern Peru by canoe and mule team; ever since, he has talked endlessly of the riches that lie away from the sea, beyond the Andes. To open up the area to farmers and livestock producers, he talks of a new $216 million highway with almost mystical fervor. Another ambition is to start communal self...
Escape to the Sea. Educated in France and the U.S. (University of Texas), Belaúnde was one of Lima's most successful architects when he decided to enter politics in 1944, immediately won a seat in the federal assembly, and soon set his sights on the presidency. With fiery speeches and expansive promises, he came within 110,000 votes of beating Manuel Prado in 1956, and he has been campaigning ever since. In 1957, he fought a saber duel with a Congressman who called him a "demagogue and a conscious liar" (both men were slightly wounded). Two years...
...East. In this year's campaign, Belaúnde promised Peruvians land reform based on expropriation of the big estates, worker-controlled industrial cooperatives, housing, food, jobs, easy loans. He talked of opening up the lush jungles to the east beyond the Andes-and went there himself by canoe and muleback. He opposed U.S.-owned oil companies, but denied that he was anti-Yankee and called for more foreign investment. When Peru's Communists offered their support, he said, "I am against international Communism." Yet he did not reject their votes...
...Though Belaúnde's tactics won him more than the one-third plurality set by the Peruvian constitution as a minimum for the presidency, he faces a tough period of horse trading to form a workable majority in Congress. Together his defeated opponents control two-thirds of Congress, and unless they can be persuaded to join a coalition, Belaúnde, scheduled to take office July 28, may find it easier to become a President than...