Word: bela
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After a year of military rule, Peru finally has constitutionally elected a President. He is Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 50, a onetime architect and aristocrat turned crowd-rousing politician. Of the three candidates, he was considered the least likely to succeed. Yet on election day, he won votes from the Christian Democrats on one hand, the far leftists on the other, and from Peruvians in the middle who regarded him as a sensible compromise between Haya de la Torre, a weary ex-revolutionary, and Manuel Odria, a tired ex-dictator. With the count nearly complete, Bela...
While Haya seems slightly weaker, so does Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 52, whose Acción Popular Party finished a fraction of a percentage point behind Haya last year. He now has the support of Peru's Castroites and many Communists, which will win him some votes but 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...
...better care of the poor, but the message gets a lot of mileage. In 1961 Odría was hit in the face by a potato during his first campaign venture outside the capital of Lima and he never set foot in the provinces again. This time, bankrolled by Belaúnde's disaffected conservatives, he is stumping the length of the country. The army obviously would not object if he won and -although not obviously-both Peru's best newspaper, La Prensa, and its prominent publisher, ex-Premier Pedro Beltr...
...sensible observer ventures to predict a sure winner. Yet as election day draws near, the experts in all three parties privately agree that Odría, onetime dictator or no, is getting the biggest campaign play. One Belaúnde aide reports that his pollsters in the cities tell him "everybody's talking about Odría." Says an Odría strategist: "I can only tell you that I think it will be close...
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle (Mercury) is a worthy love offering by the friends of the late Bela Bartok. It is an all-Hungarian recording of Bartok's only opera, with Old Friend Basso Mihaly Szekely singing the lead, and Old Friend Antal Dorati conducting. The performances are more devoted than the music justifies: the opera remains a penny poem...