Word: lima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been crying fraud ever since he finished 14,000 votes behind the controversial Haya de la Torre. Knowing that powerful army leaders fear Haya from his earlier days as a flaming leftist, he counted on the army to rally behind him. He journeyed from the capital of Lima to the mountain city of Arequipa, and after instructing a crowd of 6,000 supporters to raise barricades around his campaign headquarters he demanded the appointment of a "tribunal of honor" to revise the election results- otherwise he would fight. "In case the government does not comply," he cried, "we will...
MAURICE FOGLER Lima, Peru...
...Belaunde's figures, he was the clear winner. An hour before midnight, before the count reached 200,000 and 10% of the vote, Belaunde sat at a typewriter, pecked out a victory statement with two fingers, and drove to the studios of Lima's Channel 13. At 11:30 the movie in progress faded out, and Belaunde's handsome face appeared. "I am able to predict our definitive victory," he announced...
...high-ceilinged living room of a downtown Lima mansion...
...year, has turned LAV's old losses into profits by cracking down on bribes and padded payrolls and by negotiating a reciprocal jet-leasing agreement under which VIASA jets carry KLM passengers from Caracas to New York and KLM DC-8s handle VIASA traffic between Lima and Europe...