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...Fraud," cried Belaúnde, and demanded a "tribunal of honor" to re count the votes. "In case the government does not comply," Belaúnde threatened, "we will be compelled to overthrow it." Watching from the wings, Peru's army regarded Belaúnde with suspicion. But it hated APRA with an unyielding fury. The generals sent tanks crashing through the wrought-iron gates of Lima's presidential palace, deposed outgoing President Manuel Prado, nullified the election, and set up their own four-man junta to rule Peru...
...year later, the military called new elections. This time Belaúnde won-with the help of the Christian Democrats, three small leftist parties, and moderates who saw him as the only saving compromise between APRA and the army. It was still close. Belaunde got 39% of the votes, just enough to satisfy the constitutional provision requiring at least one third of the total vote for election...
...whatever name, it works. In the past 19 months, some 500 bills have skimmed through Congress to help Belaúnde change the ancient face of Peru. He has extended universal free education from kindergarten through university, liberalized social security and retirement programs, set up a National Housing Board that hopes to finance 100,000 new homes by 1970. Five months after taking office, Belaúnde held municipal elections in 1,400 cities, towns and villages throughout Peru. They were the first such elections in 45 years; other governments had merely appointed the mayors and civic officials...
Rivers of the Montaña. One of Belaúnde's major preoccupations is agriculture. He has pushed through the country's first major agrarian reform bill, and it is one of the most sensible in Latin America. Belaúnde knows the les sons of Mexico's disastrous ejido system, does not intend to splinter the big. highly productive cotton and sugar estates into thousands of tiny plots, each barely able to support its owner. Instead he will break up only those that do not carry their weight, and satisfy the peasants' land hunger...
...Belaúnde's grand design is to colonize the montana by means of a 20th century version of the Inca highway network that interconnected the old empire. It will be a 3,500-mile span, hugging the eastern slopes of the Andes and connecting with access roads pushing up from Peru's west coast. Belaúnde's engineers are already pushing penetration routes from the coastal town of Pisco to the mountain town of Ayacucho, from Nazca into Cuzco, from Puno down the rugged eastern slope of the Andes into the southern montana. Estimated cost...