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President Manuel Odria did not originally plan any such free vote. An orderly general who has brought Peru a glow of prosperity by his economic reforms, Odria cherished the ambition of designating a friendly successor who would carry on his work. His plan was to offer one official candidate to the electorate for ratification, thus neatly fulfilling constitutional forms. But over the last year, step by step, the controlled election got out of control. Now, while Peru and Odria watch in suspense, three candidates are battling unpredictably for the presidency...
HERNANDO DE LAVALLE, 58, candidate of Odria's minuscule Restoration Party, is a corporation lawyer (retained by almost every big U.S.-owned firm in Peru), banker and hard-working millionaire...
...Peru. What probably will tip the balance is the under-the-surface support of APRA, the only real political party in the country. Ironically enough, APRA (a word in its own right in Peru, formed by the initials of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance) is the party that Odria overthrew and outlawed in 1948. But APRA's voting strength seems to have survived...
...single candidate that Odria at first proposed could have ignored APRA. But the mere announcement of elections a year ago stirred a couple of hopeful candidates to enter the race. At a boisterous rally for one of them in Arequipa in December, Odria's police panicked and fired rifles, wounding ten men. To stem the nationwide protest, Odria had to give amnesty to Apristas and change the election law to permit vote-counting in public at the polling places in the presence of opposition observers, instead of secretly, as in the past. A real election became a possibility; other...
This new and sudden cordiality paid Odria one quick dividend: APRA, with plenty of reason for joining any revolt against the dictator, gave no backing at all to the abortive February uprising of army officers at Iquitos (TIME, Feb. 27). Odria's negotiations with APRA grew serious. He offered the party eventual legality and the immediate right to run candidates for Congress if APRA would support his chosen successor...