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...Haya were centuries ahead of European metallurgists
...called El Enano (the dwarf) because he stands only 5 ft. 3 in.-is the grand old man of Latin America's democratic left. In the small band of democratic reformers (including Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt. the Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Peru's Raul Haya de la Torre) who only recently seemed to be Latin America's best hope for nonviolent change, he remains one of the few effective survivors...
...Peruvian Congress. His Actión Popular party was not strong enough to outvote his opponents, the coalition of ex-Dictator Manuel Odría's upper-middle-class followers and the left-of-center American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), headed by Old Liberal Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, His budgets rose from $400 million to more than $1 billion annually, and the country's cumulative deficit grew to $555 million. Tax dodging by the privileged was flagrant, but Belaúnde's programs were in any case beyond Peru's fiscal capacity...
...supreme power in the state. In a larger sense, Belaúnde's action showed how vulnerable he has become. For the initiative in pushing the battle against the guerrillas has been seized by his congressional enemies, the middle-roading Apristas, led by Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 70, and the right-wing followers of former Dictator Manuel...
Last month, after guerrillas had killed nine rural policemen, the Haya-Odría bloc pushed through a bill that the army wanted: death penalty for convicted terrorists. Belaúnde signed the measure into law. But his critics still charged that he was not pursuing the terrorists hard enough, accused him of knuckling under to the leftists within his loosely knit party. The Haya-Odría bloc then demanded that the government join in outlining a fullscale, bipartisan program to eliminate the Communists. When Belaúnde balked, the opposition decided to call the Cabinet on the carpet...