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...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...
Another ticklish problem was what to do about the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co., which has been operating the rich La Brea y Pariañs basin for 50 years under a series of contracts that many Peruvians consider unfair and illegal. Last year Belaúnde's government canceled the contracts amid leftist cries for an outright takeover. Belaúnde refused, and last week he was hammering out the final details of a new contract that will keep I.P.C. in Peru but give the government a greater share of profits...
...pretends that everything is sweet harmony in Peru. Last week Belaúnde was embroiled in a major congressional fight over his 1965 budget, which runs $75 million more than this year's record. To avoid a deficit, Belaúnde wants to raise taxes; the opposition wants to leave taxes alone and slice the budget down to size. The result is likely to be a compromise. "Belaúnde is beginning to look like a statesman," says an opposition leader. "If we can only curb his tendency to spend more than he should, Peru may well have...