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With a stroke of the pen last week, Peruvian President Manuel Odria scratched Peru's name from the dwindling list of American nations that deny women the vote. In his oak-paneled office, he signed a constitutional amendment extending full political rights to Peruvian women. Only Haiti and Paraguay still discriminate against women, and Haiti does allow them to vote in municipal elections. Said Odria: "Now the Peruvian woman can elect and be elected. I believe that she is at least as well prepared as the men to make proper use of the suffrage...
...mineral-rich, dollar-starved Bolivia. Last spring, Peru and Bolivia started planning a new railroad to bypass Lake Titicaca, where everything traveling between Peru's Pacific ports and La Paz must now be transshipped to and from a lake steamer. When the ceremonies were over, Paz Estenssoro and Odria signed a formal agreement to go ahead with the 115-mile Puno-Guaqui railroad. Said a Peruvian diplomat: "Peru and Bolivia look to me like Siamese brothers, joined by the Titicaca lake...
...Vital Vote. Adding up Odria's record, most Peruvians give him his due but now yearn for a change. Odria knows this; he is honest with himself. "We are Latins," he says. "People are growing a bit tired of me. That is the Latin way." The attention of Peru, and of Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez and other interested bystanders, now centers on the manner of the change, and the man whom Odria will choose to sit in the carved presidential armchair once used by Peru's Conquistador Francisco Pizarro...
...kind of change he proposes, Odria says: "I shall go, but the regime will go on. Whoever succeeds me must be a man willing to carry through my program for the country's good." Such talk plainly points to continued suppression of Apra, and no other party has managed to survive the politically barren years in any strength. By the present signs, therefore, Odria will stage a purely formal election vith a single, designated candidate...
...year ago the candidate would probably have been Odria's close friend, General Zenón Noriega. But last fall Noriega, impatient to be boss, hatched an ill-timed plot; he now lives obscurely in Argentine exile. The unrest that followed may have helped convince Odria that his successor should be a civilian. Half a dozen, all from the wealthy right, are vaguely available. Among them: ex-President Manuel Prado, fondly remembered for staging 1945's free elections, and Foreign Minister David Aguilar. But whoever runs, only one vote will really count. That is the vote of Manuel...