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...Lima, Peru...
...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...
Thus far, however, the real rush has been to the Oil Bureau's map-lined Lima headquarters. There last week Director Noriega and his assistants pored over the rival claims, many of which overlap. Noriega hopes that his bureau can start handing out decisions by July. Then the rush to tap the new fields will really begin...
While visiting the Law School Saturday, Hermes Lima said his country needs an expanded version of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. "The basis for IBRD loans is commercial; we need much more money--money that can be loaned to individual countries on a non-immediately profitable basis," he explained...
...young Medina had found himself bored with the law. And so, between classes and cases, he studied bugs. He discovered the insect Congrophora Medinae, wrote about vampire legends, and in his spare time transated Evangeline into Spanish. Then, in 1874, he was appointed secretary to the Chilean legation in Lima, Peru. There, just "to kill time," he took up history and literature...