Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting outside Lima in their first national convention in twelve years, the 800 Aprista delegates present had good reason to be jubilant. In a radio address to the nation, conservative President Manuel Odria, long an implacable foe of APRA, had openly invited individual Apristas to take part in the political activity leading to next June's presidential elections. Moreover, he had indicated that he would permit the party to convene unmolested. On one week's notice delegates from the four corners of the country gathered. "This shows," said Leader Priale, "that under persecution our party has preserved...
...Love to Lima...
...also claimed the navy's Amazon fleet: seven 200-to 500-ton gunboats, and about thirty 10-to 50-ton river patrol craft. Moreover, most of the troops were inaccessibly camped in scores of jungle outposts, and even the Iquitos headquarters was isolated from Lima by 700 miles of mountains and jungles. Merino's strategy obviously was to sit tight, with an impressive force-in-being that other garrison commanders all over Peru might decide to join. When and if rebels outnumbered loyalists, Odria would fall...
...peninsulas have now been cut off with eight-foot walls. A typical one, Punto Salinas, 73 miles north of Lima, has 70 acres of birds. Mostly black-and-white guanays (cormorants), they stand wing to wing like a rippling blanket. Though the colony was established only this year, it already numbers some 2,500,000 birds. Other shore colonies are growing as fast, and some of them allow the birds to exploit parts of the fish-rich sea they could not reach before...
...being printed in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Lima, Peru...