Word: lima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reform was the fiery charger that carried Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry into the presidency of Peru last June, and now he cannot dismount. Belaúnde promised to redistribute land, conjured up visions of public housing to replace the slums of Lima, talked of a vast road system to open up the rich lowlands beyond the Andes. But the most emotional pledge of all-and one echoed by all his opponents-was a promise to do something drastic about International Petroleum Co., the Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate that owns one of Peru's richest oilfields...
...make itself welcome. The company oil town of Talara (pop. 35,000) on the Pacific Coast became a model of its kind, with neat houses, abundantly stocked supermarkets, modern schools, a fully equipped hospital. I.P.C. paid some of the highest wages in Peru-about 40% higher than the Lima average-and provided fat fringe and pension benefits for its workers. Employee turnover was almost nonexistent; the average blue-collar worker at Talara has been with the company 20 years. Under government prodding, I.P.C. held gasoline prices in Peru to a cut-rate...
...action against the I.P.C. contract as a living insult to their national dignity. In last June's national elections every major-and minor-party denounced the oil company. The army had already called the agreement "injurious to national sovereignty." Major newspapers were against I.P.C.-even La Prensa, Lima's prestigious daily owned by former Premier Pedro Beltrán, who is probably the best friend U.S. businessmen ever had in Peru. The end of I.P.C.'s privileged position, said La Prensa, was "an aspiration of all Peruvians...
...Italian law, still weighs heavily on Sophia Loren. When asked what she wished on her gravestone, she replied simply: "Here lies Sophia Ponti." But the Neapolitan beauty is still a long way from R.I.P., and on her 29th birthday, troubles momentarily retreated. Husband Carlo presented her with a lima-bean-sized emerald ring, and Sophia purred: "It's great to be a woman...
...union, extracting a no-strike pledge in return for settlement of the ceramics factory dispute. The rest of the union, loudly deploring Belaunde's alliance with Communists, went ahead with the general strike. But the government counter-maneuver left the union off bal ance. In Lima, where the strike would count most, business went on almost as usual-the union was able to pull out only about 20% of the factory workers. Laborers in the southern highlands mostly ignored the strike call. And only in APRA's northern provincial strongholds was the shutdown effective. APRA's intended...