Word: peruvian
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...President Carlos Julio Arosemena. In two days of receptions, lunches and talks, the two Presidents discussed U.S.-Ecuadorian problems, but Kennedy often turned the conversation to the crisis in Peru, where Washington's stiff reaction to a military takeover was now embarrassed by the way the Peruvian brass seemed to be settling into authority without much public disorder...
...refused to be moved was U.S. Ambassador James Loeb, onetime executive secretary of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). As a liberal democrat he was eager to see Peru show its support for the democratic principles of the Alliance for Progress, and it was he who recommended when the Peruvian junta took over that Kennedy suspend diplomatic relations and withhold aid. Washington promptly did so, partly out of fear that military brass in other Latin American countries might be tempted to follow the example of Argentina and Peru. Last week, as Peru's generals seemed in peaceful command of their...
...hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into town, and there delivered a fiery, fist-shaking speech in a plaza ringed by royal palms and mango trees. "Five centuries ago millions of Incas lived well in Peru," he cried. "There is no reason we cannot do better today!" "APRA, APRA!" screamed the crowd...
...presidency in return for winning legality as a party. It also made an enemy of Fernando Belaúnde, a well-born architect who at 43 went into politics in a big way and cultivated wide support from both left and right with a spellbinding appeal to Peruvian nationalism. He lost to Prado by only 106,000 votes and blamed his defeat on APRA...
...troll-eyed German high school teacher, Spengler looked at history not as a linear series of events but as the organic flowering and dying of eight major cultures: ancient Egyptian, ancient Semitic, Peruvian, Chinese, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Greco-Roman and Western. All had flourished for the same amount of time (about 1,000 years). All showed the same development. By comparing the dead to the living, the historian could tick off the inevitable signs of decay and predict how death would come again...