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Peru's General Manuel Odria, onetime subdirector of his country's War College, held a soldierly reunion this week in Lima with Venezuela's Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, one of his best students back in the early '40s. Pérez Jiménez revisited Peru with the prestige of an old grad who made good: he is the dictatorial President of Venezuela (TIME, Feb. 28). Host Odria greeted him with easy confidence: he is the dictatorial President of Peru...
...Odria feels proud of his role in this task, and partly in consequence, he has recently made an unorthodox and undictatorlike decision. He says, repeatedly, that at the end of his term, in June 1956, he intends to step out of the presidency. A promise to leave power, followed by a coy show of succumbing to duty and staying on, is standard politics in Latin America. But Odria seems firmly set on leaving. Said he recently: "The constitution clearly states that at the end of my term I must go. That is what I plan to do. Moreover...
...Land Asunder. After seven years of governing Peru, Odria, at 57, may well be tired. The country he runs is geographically sundered into three parts by the highest mountains in the world outside the Himalayas...
...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...
Frustrated, confused and angry, Apristas with navy help revolted violently one Sunday at dawn in Callao, but were speedily put down by the army at a cost of 100 killed. The government promptly outlawed the party. Less than a month later, Odria, by then convinced of his mission, seized power in a military junta. Haya took asylum in Lima's Colombian Embassy, became the world's most celebrated refugee before Odria freed and exiled him last year (he now lives in Belgium...