Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legally required one-third majority. The army, which bitterly dislikes Haya, an nulled the election and took over the country. Fairly defeated this time by Belaúnde but still feeling cheated, Haya last week joined political forces with the 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...
...since broken with the council, dismissed the reports as "inaccurate and highly colored," and dangerous because "they deceive and frustrate the hopes of anti-Castro elements" within Cuba. U.S. intelligence men guessed that no more than 50 people could be put ashore in Cuba unnoticed. In Miami, Manuel Antonio de Varona, 54, coordinator of the Revolutionary Council, agreed that perhaps infiltration was a better word than invasion. And in Philadelphia, the freighter Maximus, bound for Havana, loaded 5,000 tons of supplies, valued at $1,750,000, the last payment to Castro for the $53 million ransom release...
...considered the least likely to succeed. Yet on election day, he won votes from the Christian Democrats on one hand, the far leftists on the other, and from Peruvians in the middle who regarded him as a sensible compromise between Haya de la Torre, a weary ex-revolutionary, and Manuel Odria, a tired ex-dictator. With the count nearly complete, Belaúnde got 693,000 votes, or 39% of the total, compared with 34% for Haya and 26% for Odria...
...Lima's most successful architects when he decided to enter politics in 1944, immediately won a seat in the federal assembly, and soon set his sights on the presidency. With fiery speeches and expansive promises, he came within 110,000 votes of beating Manuel Prado in 1956, and he has been campaigning ever since. In 1957, he fought a saber duel with a Congressman who called him a "demagogue and a conscious liar" (both men were slightly wounded). Two years later, he was imprisoned on an offshore island for defying a presidential ban on political rallies during a general...
...Torre, 68, founding father of the revolutionary-turned-reformist APRA party, still retains much of his old magic for Peru's peasants and workers. But he disillusioned many supporters in 1962 by trying to make a quick postelection deal to share power with an old enemy, ex-Dictator Manuel Odría. Important unions that once turned out a solid APRA vote have been taken over by far-leftists, who have no liking for APRA's anti-Communist platform; other voters are weary of APRA's never-ending feud with Peru's army, question the wisdom...