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...general elections last June, Peru's worker-peasant APRA Party last week fell back on a familiar maneuver: a 24-hour general strike. The occasion proclaimed by leaders of APRA's 500,000-member Confederation of Labor was "indignation" over the dismissal of 300 workers at a Lima ceramics factory and police killings of two Indian peasant squatters in the backlands. Neither seemed quite enough to justify a nationwide strike, and few Peruvians were taken in. The strike was obviously intended to show President Fernando Belaunde Terry that APRA, though outvoted, was still too powerful a political force...
Besides, Teodoro Moscoso, U.S. boss of the Alliance for Progress, arrived in Lima last week to meet Belaunde and to discuss Peru's request for $80 million in aid, based on reforms being made. Both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate quickly approved the program. But the vote, said a spokesman for the opposition APRA Party, "merely extends to the government a line of credit for its intentions. Each of its projects will have to be debated together with similar projects presented by the opposition parties in order to seek a compromise...
...third candidate, ex-Dictator General Manuel Odría, 65, to form an alliance in Congress giving them a clear majority over Belaúnde. Then as an added slight to Belaúnde, and an added complication to a nation that badly needs political tranquillity, Haya disappeared from Lima just as Belaúnde's inauguration got under...
Their staple crop, presumably grown on the river flats after the annual freshet, was lima beans, but they also ate reed shoots, berries and an unidentified tuber. They caught fish with hooks made by tying tender young thorns into a hook shape and letting them harden that way. They had no cotton or wool, but they wove cloth and fish nets of coarse fibers...
...lima bean people lived on their flat for more than 1,000 years. About 2700 B.C., 1,000 years before Moses, they disappeared. For 2,000 years the site went uninhabited; then the wholly different Chavin people, complete with cotton, pottery, and many other attributes of higher civilization, set up more advanced housekeeping on the flat where the Chilcas had lived...