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...along the dry coastal plain, soldiers and police tracked down the men blamed for the brief, bloody uprising in Callao (TIME, Oct. 11). By week's end more than 1,000 Apristas had been jailed. Each day the searchers hoped to bring in Aprista No. 1, famed Haya de la Torre...
...suggestion that Haya and his lieutenants were too smart to have mixed in the inept Callao revolt, anti-Apristas had an answer. The army had been expected to join the revolt; instead had remained loyal to President Bustamante. Others accused Aprista leaders of cowardice. Said one: "I have always believed Haya to be just a tough guy with no guts...
Under the President's orders, government troops in Lima occupied APRA headquarters, seized the plant of its newspaper, La Tribuna, arrested several prominent Apristas (including the party's second in command, Senator Manuel Seoane). Burly Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, APRA's leader, had disappeared, perhaps into the political underground where he had already spent 16 years of his life. One did not need to be as politically shrewd as Haya to know that if Bustamante had been looking for a chance to outlaw APRA, this week's revolt presented a tailor-made opportunity...
...What Haya and a lot of his followers feared was assassination. Remembering what happened to Gaitan in Bogota, Haya had ordered the No. 2 Aprista, handsome Manuel Seoane, to stay in Chile for a while, to be ready to take over if something should happen to the Jefe Maximo (supreme chieftain). Most people in Peru agreed that, should Haya be assassinated, APRA's answer would probably be revolution...
...People's Will? On the night of his return, Haya stood on a platform in front of the Casa del Pueblo (House of the People), party headquarters. His left arm was outstretched in the Aprista salute, as thousands (APRA's estimate: 200,000; opposition estimate: 15,000) passed in review. While fireworks lighted the sky, the people chanted "Elections, yes! Tyranny, no!" (The day before, Bustamante had postponed congressional by-elections for a third time.) Then they jammed the Avenida Alfonso Ugarte to hear their leader...