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...once in office, the new city councilmen began bickering among themselves. For mayor, they picked Juan Cornejo, who made enemies right and left. At one point Cornejo tried to kick out one of his own PASO councilmen, Manuel Maldonado, because he owed $2.98 in back city taxes. A court ruled he could not be fired. Three other councilmen resigned. By the time election rolled around last week Cornejo and Maldonado were the only two PASOs left-and they were hardly in public favor. Crystal Citizens therefore elected a five-man slate put up by the Anglo-organized Citizens' Association...
...Marx and its support from Peru's impoverished Indian agrarians. When APRA's founder Victor Raul Haya de la Torre sought refuge in the Colombian embassy a year ago last January, he left a triumvirate to direct the party. Last fortnight two of the three, Senator Cirilo Cornejo and Deputy Luis Felipe de las Casas, were condemned to prison terms by a military court. Next night, the third, scrappy, square-faced Luis Negreiros, who had managed to remain at large, was shot to death by police on a Lima street...
...Cornejo and de las Casas were tried with 48 other civilians and 190 members of the navy for complicity in a naval revolt in Callao in October 1948. Cornejo got five years, de las Casas six. Of the remaining defendants, ten civilians were acquitted; the others got terms of from one year to life. Only one, a naval petty officer, was condemned to death...
...German Cornejo, 52-year-old Mexican farm worker, heard there might be some kind of work for him across the border. He loaded relatives and friends into his truck and from Sonoyta lightheartedly set forth. Nineteen miles from San Luis the truck's wheels sank into the sand, stuck fast...
Four days later, Francisco Arvallo, a peddler, driving along the same route, came upon Cornejo's stalled truck. Near by was a woman who screamed at him and waved a hat. It was Cornejo's daughter, Socorro. A man, Francisco Flores, was alive, lying under a bush. He had cut one wrist, tried to slake his thirst with his own blood. These two were the only survivors. Some of the others had stumbled for miles across the sand, looking for water. Nine miles off, Tomas Ponce had scratched on border monument No. 201: "Dying of thirst, hungry." Dead...