Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unacceptable." The U.S. State Department at first seemed to take the attitude that it might be best to let Britain and France (who together own 88% of the Canal Company) fight their own battles. But after White House discussions, and long-distance conversations with John Foster Dulles in Lima, Peru, State's attitude hardened. It was Nasser himself who helped to harden...
...Santiago, Chile. Chile's Carlos Ibanez, however, was not on hand to greet them; on his way home the Chilean President had 1) run across Ecuador's Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra at the Guayaquil airport and dawdled over a glass of champagne, and 2) landed at Lima for a chat with ailing Manuel Odria, Peru's outgoing President...
Campaign posters plastered the stately palms on Lima's Avenida Arequipa, crusted the city's statues, napped from every wall. Neon lights blinked political slogans, and the bellow of the sound truck was heard in the land. In Peru this week, the eight-year rule of a military strongman was coming to a surprising climax in a wide-open presidential election...
APRA agreed. Odria chose Lavalle, and most other candidates dropped out. Only Prado and Belaunde stayed on as formal opposition candidates. By mid-May, when a mostly Aprista throng of 35,000 cheered Lavalle in Lima, Odria seemed on the verge, after all, of electing...
...forces locked themselves inside. Other students, 6,000 strong, clashed and rioted in front of the presidential palace, using tear-gas bombs made by chemistry students as weapons. The weight of numbers favored the anticlericals. At length Aramburu accepted Dell'Oro's resignation (offered by telephone from Lima, where Dell'Oro had just been elected president of an inter-American conference of education ministers...