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...defiant show. In his beribboned cavalryman's uniform, General Ricardo Pérez Godoy, 59, head of the four-man military junta that took over Peru after inconclusive elections last year, sat stiffly in the ornate Salón Blanco of Lima's presidential palace listening to the complaints of two fellow junta members, Air Force Major General Pedro Vargas Prada and Vice Admiral Francisco Torres Matos. The midnight callers gave him an ultimatum: resign or be driven out. Replied Pérez Godoy: "I refuse to leave. It is too late now to continue this conversation...
...bravado was in vain. Warned that his comrades-in-arms were determined to remove him, Pérez Godoy had tried to rally support among provincial military commanders and among civilians working toward new presidential elections in June. All his efforts failed. Just before dawn, Pérez Godoy got into a car with his wife Lola and drove off to his suburban home...
More Equal. According to his fellow soldiers, Pérez Godoy was growing too attached to his job as senior man among the junta's four ''co-Presidents." First, he decided that he and his wife should live in the palace while the other junta members and their wives stayed home. Next, his wife, who presumably shared authority with the three other junta wives in running the National Board for Social Assistance, seemed to want to be more equal than the others. Then Pérez Godoy started issuing orders...
Promising a "new Peru," Pérez Godoy pushed through a 24% increase in the budget and decreed new taxes to pay for it, including a $1-a-ton levy on anchovies that provoked a strike and threatened to close down the thriving fishmeal industry. And when he refused to approve the construction of a new hospital for Vargas Prada's air force and six new ships for Torres Matos' national steamship line, the other junta members turned...
...Give Us Time." As President of the junta, the military appointed General Manuel Pérez Godoy, 59, a cavalryman with a folksy style. "This palace is the home of the nation," he chatted at a press conference, "but do not come too late at night, as I may be sleeping." Army Commander Nicolas Lindley was named Prime Minister. Air Force General Jesús Melgar, the new Agriculture Minister, quickly scored with consumers by persuading butchers to knock down meat prices. The generals reaffirmed their intention to hold a simon-pure election next June. There were even stories that...