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...what he said, began campaigning with such antigovernmental vigor that Odria's police were goaded unwisely into shooting up a political meeting in Arequipa last December. The result was a surprisingly loud outcry for a completely unfettered election. It was under this banner that Brigadier General Marcial Merino Pereyra rebelled last week in Iquitos (see below...
Soon after sunup the rest of the garrison was standing at attention in the treelined Plaza de Armas. Brigadier General Marcial Merino Pereyra, their commander, read off a manifesto explaining to his men why he had led them into rebellion against Strongman Manuel Odria. They would, he promised, "open the front door for democracy in Peru, and guarantee absolutely free elections." Townspeople gawked, then drifted off to work...
...newborn infants in a nursery at Uruguay's Pereyra Rossell Maternity Hospital in Montevideo turned blue last week. Doctors had no trouble diagnosing the mass illness as a hemoglobin disorder. But finding the cause was another matter. Meanwhile, as 15 of the babies seemed near death, every oxygen tent in the city was ordered to the hospital, and each infant's blood was completely changed by transfusion...
About two months ago, according to anti-Perón sources in Buenos Aires, Air Force Lieutenants "Puig" and "Pereyra" sought out Reyes and a Laborista colleague, Dr. Walter Beveragge Alfende. (Puig was really Police Lieut. Walter Pereyra; Pereyra was Detective Inspector Salomon Wasserman.) The officers had spun a yarn of a highly organized air force plot to do away with Perón. Laborista political backing was solicited. To overcome Reyes' natural skepticism, conspiratorial meetings were held in the Avenida Quintana headquarters of the Civil Aviation General Administration; Air Force General Gregorio Velez, boss of civil aviation, gave...
Died. Thérése Pereyra Blum, wife (second) of France's onetime Premier Leon Blum, who once said of her: "Madame Blum is my best adviser, my best friend, my best beloved, and my finest chauffeur"; after a gall bladder operation; in Paris...