Word: bela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fernando Belaúnde has been crying fraud ever 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...
...exile and bitter fighting, Haya was at last a candidate, running openly and legally, for President of Peru. As the June 10 election date drew near, he was the favorite, but a narrow one and a man whose many enemies were closing in around him. Pressing hard are Fernando Belaúnde, 49, who narrowly lost the 1956 election, and a voice from the more distant past, ex-Dictator Manuel Odria, 64, who ruled from 1948 to 1956 and now seeks a popular mandate. On the election outcome hangs not only the future of Haya and his APRA...
...Lima, where he stayed for five years. Not until 1956 did Odria hold another election. Once again APRA was the power behind the scenes, helped elect Manuel Prado, a conservative banker, to the presidency in return for winning legality as a party. It also made an enemy of Fernando Belaúnde, a well-born architect who at 43 went into politics in a big way and cultivated wide support from both left and right with a spellbinding appeal to Peruvian nationalism. He lost to Prado by only 106,000 votes and blamed his defeat on APRA...
Through its well-organized political machine, APRA controls the country's 500,000-member Workers' Confederation and the 1,300,000-member Peasants' Federation. Haya predicts that he will win with more than 1,000,000 votes out of an expected 2,000,000. But Fernando Belaúnde, the 1956 loser, is giving APRA a hard race. Tirelessly stumping Peru's 144 provinces, he preaches much the same economic and social reform as does APRA, draws huge crowds from all those who hate and fear APRA. His opinions about the rabid left hardened abruptly...
...which brings $1,000 in cash and appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Denver symphony orchestras. Onto a stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art paraded four other finalists: Ralph Votapek, who gracefully turned the willowy phrases of Beethoven's Concerto No. 4; Bela Szilagi, whose Brahms and Liszt were played with cohesive intensity; Marilyn Neeley, a petite brunette who mastered the pyrotechnics of Tchaikovsky with brute female strength; and Stephen Manes, whose forte is clarity...