Word: haya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across his path stand barriers of political enmity and grudge. A year ago, in a disputed three-way election, old-time Revolutionary Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 68, beat Belaúnde by a bare 12,867 votes, but did not win the legally required one-third majority. The army, which bitterly dislikes Haya, an nulled the election and took over the country. Fairly defeated this time by Belaúnde but still feeling cheated, Haya last week joined political forces with the third candidate, ex-Dictator General Manuel Odría, 65, to form an alliance...
...seven years, nine months, two weeks and a few odd days, the cellar has been home to Brothers Juan Carlos Cardoso, 46, and Luis Amadeo Cardoso, 41, making them easily the current champions in that treasured Latin American institution known as political asylum. Only Peru's Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, who fled to the Colombian embassy in Lima in 1949 - holed up for five years, three months, four days - ever approached their record...
...crowd-rousing politician. Of the three candidates, he was considered the least likely to succeed. Yet on election day, he won votes from the Christian Democrats on one hand, the far leftists on the other, and from Peruvians in the middle who regarded him as a sensible compromise between Haya de la Torre, a weary ex-revolutionary, and Manuel Odria, a tired ex-dictator. With the count nearly complete, Belaúnde got 693,000 votes, or 39% of the total, compared with 34% for Haya and 26% for Odria...
...rallies during a general strike, and staged an exciting prison break, attempting to swim to an escape boat. The break failed (he swam to the wrong boat), but Peruvians thrilled to the story. In last year's abortive election, he lost by a bare 12,867 votes to Haya de la Torre, and then, crying fraud, attempted to lead his supporters in rebellion. At that point, the military stepped in to settle the issue...
...While Haya seems slightly weaker, so does Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 52, whose Acción Popular Party finished a fraction of a percentage point behind Haya last year. He now has the support of Peru's Castroites and many Communists, which will win him some votes but cost him the wealthy conservatives who filled his campaign coffers in 1962. Even more damaging to his image, after last year's election, Belaúnde ordered his Congressmen-elect to renounce their seats, disguised himself as an Indian and raced off to the rebellion-prone city...