Word: peru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five years ago, Peru's military leaders helped Fernando Belaúnde Terry become President, impressed by his promise of reform and a "new politics" for South America's fourth largest nation. Last week they brusquely reversed that judgment on the man who was once praised as Peru's Kennedyesque "architect of hope." Awakened, as he slept, by a burst of machine-gun fire, Belaúnde looked out of his window to find tanks outside the Presidential Palace in Lima. Some 50 Peruvian Rangers stormed into the palace and took Belaúnde into custody. Onlookers...
...fall once again raised the question of whether democracy can flourish in Latin America. Its prospects had seldom seemed more promising than when Belaúnde took over the presidency in 1963. He plunged into his tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres of land...
...skill against the sea in small, hand-built boats; after his battered 11½-ft. sloop Little One was found empty 400 miles west of Ireland and 143 days out of Montauk Point, L.I. A seaman since 15, Willis sailed alone in 1954 aboard a balsa raft from Peru to Samoa, and in 1963-64 made a 10,000-mile solo voyage from Peru to Australia. Before his third and last unsuccessful attempt to reach England from America alone, he said: "The greatest challenge is to prevent the solitude from driving you so mad that you want to jump overboard...
...work on the ambitious new San Francisco Bay Area rapid-transit system. Utah's revenues of $1 13.3 million and earnings of $16,543,000 last year resulted from such diverse and far-flung sources as real estate sales on California's Monterey Peninsula, mining operations in Peru, Australia and Canada, and a fleet of nine super-size ore and oil carriers, to which three new 128,000-ton ships will soon be added...
Tunes of Glory. Oppenheimer came by his improbable trade improbably enough. A Harvard anthropology ma jor ('39), he graduated cum laude at 19, then set off for Bolivia and Peru...