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...readers south of the border have, I must admit, been so favorable. Peru's President Manuel Odria sometimes thought TIME'S frank reporting unkind, but he never did anything worse in reprisal than to nickname our Lima correspondent, Thomas A. Loayza, "Mal Tiempo." In Argentina, Juan Perón found TIME'S views of his dictatorship so infuriating that he arrested our correspondents, banned the magazine for six years (1947-53). But that did not keep TIME out of the country. Our circulation in Uruguay, across the River Plate, trebled. Argentines crossed the river to smuggle TIME...
...President Odria make his unexpected gesture to APRA? Lima observers reasoned that: 1) he is genuinely anxious to run off a free election; and 2) having failed to form a coalition with Peru's right wing, he is now willing to dicker with the left for the votes he needs to elect a successor who will carry on his cherished economic program...
Meeting outside Lima in their first national convention in twelve years, the 800 Aprista delegates present had good reason to be jubilant. In a radio address to the nation, conservative President Manuel Odria, long an implacable foe of APRA, had openly invited individual Apristas to take part in the political activity leading to next June's presidential elections. Moreover, he had indicated that he would permit the party to convene unmolested. On one week's notice delegates from the four corners of the country gathered. "This shows," said Leader Priale, "that under persecution our party has preserved...
...Peru, Brigadier General Marcial Merino rebelled with his 10,000-man Jungle Division on the upper Amazon (TIME, Feb. 27), and said, in effect, to the country's other garrison commanders: "I move that we overthrow President Manuel Odria." Strongman Odria hastily shifted several doubtful generals out of high command. By last weekend it was clear to Merino that no one was going to second his motion. In a voice choked with suita ble emotion, he surrendered to the government by long-distance telephone from his headquarters in the river port of Iquitos, then took asylum in the Brazilian...
...turned back to military problems. At week's end he was reportedly concentrating his eight Thunderjets and 20 Hawker Hunters at northern bases in readiness for an air strike at the rebels. With Merino still sitting tight and hoping for the time factor to operate, it was clearly Odria's move...