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...Defying a government ban, 100,000 Catholics gathered in front of the cathedral on the Plaza de Mayo, then paraded through the downtown streets. The government labeled the marchers "vandals," accused them of burning an Argentine flag. At midweek, Perón ordered two high-ranking Argentine prelates - Bishop Manuel Tato and Monsignor Ramón Pablo Novoa -expelled from the country on the ground that they had incited the flag-burners. The following day came the Vatican excommunication...
...Incas, Nazi symbolism and even Einstein's theory of relativity as applied by Haya to history. Fighting back bloodily against the suppressive tactics of a series of dictators, Apra earned mass support and the hatred of the rich rightists and the army. Finally, in 1945, retiring President Manuel Prado allowed a free election. José Luis Bustamante, an Apra-supported but non-Aprista President, was chosen, and Apra had working control of Congress...
...They boycotted Congress, paralyzing it. Then came violence: the assassination of the editor of La Prensa, the Apra-hating newspaper owned by conservative Cotton Exporter Pedro Beltrán. Apristas were blamed; President Bustamante called for a soldier to take charge of public order. His choice: gimlet-eyed Colonel Manuel Odria, then chief of staff...
...fall Noriega, impatient to be boss, hatched an ill-timed plot; he now lives obscurely in Argentine exile. The unrest that followed may have helped convince Odria that his successor should be a civilian. Half a dozen, all from the wealthy right, are vaguely available. Among them: ex-President Manuel Prado, fondly remembered for staging 1945's free elections, and Foreign Minister David Aguilar. But whoever runs, only one vote will really count. That is the vote of Manuel Odria himself, who says, glancing at the blueprints on his desk: "All this must continue. I will...
...climbed toward the lead in his John Zink Special. At 100 miles he was third; by the halfway mark he was first. When the checkered flag dropped, Sweikert was still in the lead, having averaged a respectable 128.2 m.p.h. This year, at the cost of two lives (Manuel Ayulo, 33, was killed in a practice-run crash), the Indianapolis 500 had proved little except that auto racing is a fascinating and relentless sport...