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...Predict Victory." As the polls closed, Belaunde and his staff gathered tensely in his discreetly lavish home in the well-to-do Lima suburb of San Isidro...
...elections that year, APRA made a deal to help elect a non-Aprista as President, and in return was given three Cabinet posts. Within three years, an APRA-hating general named Manuel Odria seized power and drove APRA underground once more. Haya fled to the Colombian embassy in Lima, where he stayed for five years. Not until 1956 did Odria hold another election. Once again APRA was the power behind the scenes, helped elect Manuel Prado, a conservative banker, to the presidency in return for winning legality as a party. It also made an enemy of Fernando Bela...
...most acceptable to all factions. Nor can the third candidate be written off. Ex-Dictator Odria, now 64, has the backing of the military, some businessmen and, oddly, many Communists. He, too, talks reform and spends wads of soles (3¼? each) enrolling massive support in Lima, where he is remembered for some showcase public works...
...they face the possibility that Peru's military men, emboldened by the Argentine example, will attempt to annul the election. Odria already accuses APRA of trying to rig the voting. "If the government allows fraud, there will be deeds not words," shouted Odria at a rally in Lima. And last week the army, which is charged with supervising the election, reported the discovery of 1,591 falsified voting cards. It did not accuse APRA-but the party remembers the statement by one general two months ago: "Even if Haya de la Torre is elected, he will never...
...Sell Himself. Brother Martin ranks among the church's spectacular healers of the sick and comforters of the afflicted. As the convent's almoner, he gave away more than $2,000 a week in food and clothing to Lima's poor. Placed in charge of the Dominican infirmary, he filled up the beds with ailing human derelicts whom he found lying in the streets. Be fore he died in 1639, Brother Martin had established an orphanage and foundling hospital. He loved animals as well as people, and filled the convent with wounded stray dogs and cats, which...