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...elections, the military junta that had been running the country for more than a year stepped peacefully aside for the inauguration of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 50, a vigorous and ambitious architect. Peru's economy, left in good shape by the sound policies of ex-Premier Pedro Beltrán, and well tended by the interim military government, was in blooming health. The sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America. Foreign reserves stand at a fat $106 million, old industries like copper mining are expanding, and new industries like fish-meal fertilizer are running...
...whose middle-reading party calls itself the People's Radicals, wound up with 27% of the total, worth 169 electoral votes. Dr. Oscar Alende, leading an anti-Frondizi wing of the ex-President's party, mustered 17% (for 109 electoral votes). Retired Army General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, provisional President after Perón's downfall, got 15% (for 43 electoral votes...
...Died. Pedro Armendariz, 51, lusty Mexican he-man heavy in innumerable Hollywood westerns (Fort Apache), best remembered for his portrayal of a bedeviled fisherman in the 1948 Mexican masterpiece, The Pearl; by his own hand (.357 Magnum Colt revolver); in Los Angeles, Calif...
...provinces again. This time, bankrolled by Belaúnde's disaffected conservatives, he is stumping the length of the country. The army obviously would not object if he won and -although not obviously-both Peru's best newspaper, La Prensa, and its prominent publisher, ex-Premier Pedro Beltr...
...Castro continues to claim that he is not exporting Communist revolution to the rest of Latin America-and some people who should know better seem to believe him-the incident in Puerto Maldonado pointed up the dangerous truth. Wrote the editor of Lima's La Prensa, former Premier Pedro Beltran: "Peru, and every American country including the U.S., will remain subject to grave danger as long as Cuba is permitted to operate as a center of ideological, military and economic subversion for Communism...