Word: peru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Pacific, Peru stretches across an arid coastal desert, rises into the icy Andean highlands, then plunges into the trackless Amazon jungle. Until recently, the country's torn and fractured political life reflected the old Indian name. Now, under the hand of a shrewd and popular new president, Fernando Belaunde Terry, 52, Peruvians have an opportunity to join the quarters into a united nation...
...prospect was hardly encouraging 18 months ago when Belaúnde took over after a bitterly fought election. With Peru's economy just starting to gather momentum, agitators within the unions were threatening crippling strikes, landless highland Indians were waging angry battles against their landowners, and businessmen were sending their money abroad for safekeeping...
...have had the right blueprint. He sent troops into the highlands to restore law and order, then enacted a sensible land-reform bill that will provide land for the landless without destroying the big, productive estates on which the country's agriculture depends (TIME, July 3). Throughout Peru, police rounded up extremist troublemakers to make it plain that despite some Communist support in the elections, Belaúnde would tolerate no Red-made unrest. Though his Action Popular party and its political allies held only a minority in Congress, Belaúnde cajoled his opponents into grudging cooperation...
...pools, off ski slopes. They are lodged between the pages of books, the coils of radiators, the seats in movie houses, never again to be seen or to afford sight. Moreover, the new lenses easily get stuck, one inside the other. The wife of a Peace Corpsman stationed in Peru thought she had lost one lens and waited three months for the replacement to arrive from New York, only to discover that the one she had been wearing all along was really...
...sandy beach he already owns. Then, in sunny Nice, Partner No. 2 (Gert Frobe, the Goldfinger of Goldfinger) finds himself jowl-deep in violence, sham infidelity, fixed races and drugged thoroughbreds ostensibly doctored by Belmondo, posing as a German veterinarian who possesses "Inca secrets from plants in Peru." The sucker is soon poorer by 60 million...