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Graves's tale (based on historical fact) tells how vapid General Mendaña y Castro set sail from Callao, Peru with four ships to take possession of the dimly known Solomons and to convert the heathen -mostly into cash. But the heart of the book, like that of any pirate story, is Graves's evocation of the murderous plotting and quarreling that enlivened the long and miserable voyage: its sailors, soldiers, settlers and missionaries fall on one another (and on the hapless islanders) with a ferocity inspired equally by high zeal and abysmal greed...
...port of Callao, the "coke" capital of Peru, the vice is out in the open. Hundreds of peddlers, many of whom are their own best customers, offer a variety of items ranging from the plain leaves to pichicato or la diosa blanca (the white goddess), the drug in its refined form. Snuffing up a pinch of the powder in full view of passers-by last week, one old peddler brazenly solicited customers: "The only danger is that the wind will blow the pichicato away, that...
...Since the military junta of General Manuel Odria took over Peru last fall, the government has been worried about the public effects of coca-chewing. In desperation, it finally renewed an old plea to the U.N. Economic and Social Council to send a commission to work on the problem. Callao's international operators speeded up their shipments to clear out big inventories. But domestic dealers were unworried. Said one: "If you're poor, you're hungry. Pichicato fixes that. If you're rich, you want an aphrodisiac. Pichicato fixes that, too. It's a sure...
...native Arequipa scarcely ruffled President Jose Luis Bustamante's customary calm. Arequipa, after all, was the "Rebel City of the South," a traditional place for sudden risings and uproars. Moreover, Peru's army had just proved its loyalty by crushing the bloody Oct. 3 revolt at Callao (TIME, Oct. 11). The government put out a reassuring communiqué, ordered loyal troops to move against the rebels. But nothing happened...
Unlike the Callao rising, which Bustamante had blamed on the leftist APRA party, the Arequipa revolt was led by a professional soldier and outspoken rightist, 51-year-old General Manuel Odria. He started it off by denouncing the government for not taking sterner measures against APRA (it had been outlawed, many of its leaders jailed). Then he called on the military to follow...