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Since October 1948, when he seized power as the leader of a military coup, General Manuel Odria has ruled Peru as a fatherly, sometimes Big Brotherly dictator. Elected President in 1950 in a one-candidate race, Odria said recently that he intended to step down at the end of his six-year term, handing his office over to a constitutionally elected successor. Many of his countrymen doubted whether the strongman, only 57, really meant it, but last week, in a published interview with touring New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, Odria repeated his intention with notable firmness. He gave...
...Having spent the major portion of my life in South America, I am convinced that democracy as we know it will never work there . . . It is with such men as Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela and Odria of Peru that Latin American countries will forge ahead...
...only Indian mass movement, the left-wing APRA Party, Haya now bubbled with plans to write, speak and travel. Said he: "I consider myself lucky to be alive . . . Now I must start all over again." Today, Haya's party is shattered and outlawed. Peru's President Manuel Odria, who dealt the Apristas their knockout blow, has stabilized his country with public works and measures against inflation. Like most Latin politicos who invoke the right of asylum, Haya is now free once more to scheme and dream of a comeback. But the obstacles in his path appear greater than...
Last week the Peruvian Minister of Education announced that a special Cabinet meeting, presided over by President Manuel Odria, had decided that the Linguistic Institute's research and teaching among the Indians would continue with the full backing of the Peruvian government. Townsend had promised to use the Catholic version of the Bible in his religion course, and the government would increase its financial aid to the Church's own jungle missions. Said Townsend: "Of course, when I see a jungle Indian worshiping a boa constrictor, I want to teach him to worship the Lord instead...
...Left-wing (but antiCommunist) leader of Peru's workers and Indians. A hunted man after Odria's 1948 revolution, he took refuge in Colombia's Lima embassy 4½ years ago. Subsequently, the World Court ruled confusingly that "asylum was not justified," but that Colombia "is not obliged to deliver" Haya to Peru. To this day, Haya has not left the embassy, which is completely encircled by Odria's troops...