Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Late this spring, the U.S. ended a policy of not recognizing dictatorial governments, when it recognized: 1. Argentina. 2. Costa Rica. 3. Nicaragua. 4. Peru. 5. Dominican Republic...
...Cuba. 2. Costa Rica. #. Peru. 4. Colombia. 5. Venezuela...
...Army's Role? Few people doubted that Haya de la Torre could say whether there would be war or an uneasy peace in Peru. Did he still hope to make peace with Bustamante? A deal between them would bring back elections, give Peru a Congress, return power to APRA municipal functionaires kicked out by the government. Or had Haya lost his faith in the "democratic processes" through which he has tried to take power over the past 20 years...
...followers feared was assassination. Remembering what happened to Gaitan in Bogota, Haya had ordered the No. 2 Aprista, handsome Manuel Seoane, to stay in Chile for a while, to be ready to take over if something should happen to the Jefe Maximo (supreme chieftain). Most people in Peru agreed that, should Haya be assassinated, APRA's answer would probably be revolution...
Neutron Country. All winter, Dr. John Simpson of the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies flew back & forth between the northern U.S. and Lima, Peru, in a Navy Bag packed with special instruments. He was hunting neutrons, those subtle particles that slip into atomic nuclei and often disrupt them with bangs of radiation. He found plenty of neutrons. The higher he flew the more he found. They were not invaders from space, his studies told him, but were spattered out of atmospheric nuclei struck by cosmic rays...