Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neutral but pro-U.S.: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay...
...Peru rode herd on its large (30,000-40,000), centralized Japanese colony...
This was the first word from an eyewitness of one of Peru's worst disasters. The avalanche had struck the town of Huarás, Peru, in an Andean valley 216 miles northwest of Lima, in the early morning while most of its 9,000 people were still in bed. Five hundred were known to be dead, 1,500 more were injured or missing...
...police station in the city of Panama. They were confident. The bribes had been paid, police officers had promised them help in breaking in. If they could seize police control, the plotters might arrest president Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, proclaim in his place Anibal Rios, former Minister to Peru, who was scheduled to return from that country...
...open meeting at 7:15 o'clock in Lowell House Common Room after their annual fall dinner, the Harvard Mountaineering Club will discuss plans for a climbing expedition to Peru, next summer...