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...election date drew near, he was the favorite, but a narrow one and a man whose many enemies were closing in around him. Pressing hard are Fernando Belaúnde, 49, who narrowly lost the 1956 election, and a voice from the more distant past, ex-Dictator Manuel Odria, 64, who ruled from 1948 to 1956 and now seeks a popular mandate. On the election outcome hangs not only the future of Haya and his APRA, but the course that Peru will take-a country of 11 million stretching for 1,400 miles down South America's Pacific coast...
...build his party cells and by 1945 was too powerful either to destroy or ignore. In elections that year, APRA made a deal to help elect a non-Aprista as President, and in return was given three Cabinet posts. Within three years, an APRA-hating general named Manuel Odria seized power and drove APRA underground once more. Haya fled to the Colombian embassy in Lima, where he stayed for five years. Not until 1956 did Odria hold another election. Once again APRA was the power behind the scenes, helped elect Manuel Prado, a conservative banker, to the presidency in return...
...Castroite rock and angrily disavowed "all forms of leftism." His supporters argue that in a sorely divided nation he would have the easiest road to travel as President, since he is the most acceptable to all factions. Nor can the third candidate be written off. Ex-Dictator Odria, now 64, has the backing of the military, some businessmen and, oddly, many Communists. He, too, talks reform and spends wads of soles (3¼? each) enrolling massive support in Lima, where he is remembered for some showcase public works...
...last-minute deal among supporters of the three contenders might well determine the outcome on election day. If APRA and Haya de la Torre should win, they face the possibility that Peru's military men, emboldened by the Argentine example, will attempt to annul the election. Odria already accuses APRA of trying to rig the voting. "If the government allows fraud, there will be deeds not words," shouted Odria at a rally in Lima. And last week the army, which is charged with supervising the election, reported the discovery of 1,591 falsified voting cards. It did not accuse...
Trained in conservatism and orthodoxy at the pre-Laski (1915-18) London School of Economics. Beltran came home to put the modern miracles of science to work on the family hacienda and to criticize governments from the pages of his daily La Prensa. His criticism of ex-Dictator Manuel Odria landed him in jail; his criticism of Odria's successor, President Manuel Prado, gave Prado an idea-he asked Beltran to help run the country...