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...Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder of Peru's peasant-and-worker APRA Party-and he was on the last lap of a long journey. After three decades of jail, exile and bitter fighting, Haya was at last a candidate, running openly and legally, for President of Peru. As the June 10 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...
...Peasants' Is Best. American women, who for almost 200 years had not worn wigs except for therapeutic, theatrical or religious reasons, were clearly determined to make up for the loss of time. And no one was more astonished than Paris Couturier Givenchy, who started the whole thing in 1958 when he clapped wigs on his mannequins' heads. He thought it was a gag. Three years later, American women, slow to see the joke, finally saw the potential: brunettes, with only one life to lead, could turn blonde overnight; straight-haired women could have the curls they pinned...
...hundreds, but 20% of the border crossers slip through the dragnet, aided by relatives in Hong Kong and by say-tau (literally, snake heads). The say-tau sneak into the hills across the frontier and, for a price, supply the refugees with city clothing to replace their conspicuous peasant garb and with information about the safest routes into the city. Captured refugees are herded into a processing camp, questioned, fed, and then sent back across the frontier to the mainland. This month, more than 30,000 have been sent back to Red China. Most, however, camp out in the hills...
Communists & Catholics. Many Brazilians fear that it is only a matter of time before simmering discontent boils over into outright revolution. In 1955 Francisco Juliāo, a youthful, self-styled Marxist messiah, founded the Northeast's first peasant league. Today there are 98 peasant leagues in six states, some Marxist, others not; they have 40,000 members and uncounted sympathizers, have taken over 12,350 acres of rich coastal land, have fought pitched battles with the landlords' hired gunmen, and brought Brazilian infantry troops double-timing to the Northeast in regimental strength. What holds back the revolution...
...With good will," says a weary priest, "everything could be solved." But if anything, the landlords of the Northeast, who fear a peasant revolt, are growing tougher. To Caio Lins Cavalcanti, president of the "Recuperation Center of Agricultural Landlords" formed as a sort of mutual protection society, the hungry peasants demonstrating in the towns last week were "packs of thieves and Communists." Adds Landlord Joacil Pereira of Paraiba state: "We are generous men. If a peasant dies, or his wife dies, or his child dies, who pays for the funeral? The landlord...