Word: odria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argentina in 1954 to toast the dictator for "purest sincerity." The U.S. propped Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somosa, who seized power after the Marines pulled out, on Franklin Roosevelt's theory that "he may be an s.o.b., but he's ours." In Peru, Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running a tight economy. The reason for such friendly gestures was typically stated in Pérez Jiménez' Legion of Merit citation. It commended him for his "spirit of friendship and cooperation" and for his "sound foreign-investment policies...
...Peru's Manuel Odria, 60, seized military power in October 1948, headed a junta until 1950, when he had himself elected President. He ran off what was supposed to be a well-planned election in June 1956, watched in dismay as his hand-picked successor lost, then slipped off into obscurity...
...four ordered between 1952 and 1955 by Vice Admiral Roque Saldias, the Navy Minister. The reputed cost was $32 million, payable over five years, a heavy drain for a nation whose record navy budget is only $13 million, but no complaint was heard as long as Dictator Manuel Odria was in power. After President Manuel Prado took office last July, navy officers and newsmen began some critical digging. They reported that before ordering the subs, Admiral Saldias had turned down a U.S. offer of two World War II-type heavy cruisers at a bargain $2,000,000 each, payable over...
...ended General Manuel Odria's eight-year span in power. Peru had thrived eco nomically during his presidency, but his finest achievement was that he permitted last June's free presidential election - and then, though his chosen candidate lost, turned over his office to the winner...
Prado's No. 1 political problem is likely to be how to get along with APRA, which helped him win because he promised to legalize outlawed parties. It was to crush APRA that Odria took over in 1948, but APRA leaders now claim that the party has outgrown its old socialistic, demagog ic, intolerant ways. If the party should again make itself too obnoxious to the army, a swing back to military rule would be all too probable...