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Schlesinger found, as others have before him, that many of Latin America's leaders in private are ready to express their growing disillusionment with Castro. Last week even Peruvian Leftist Victor Raul Haya de la Torre denounced the Castro government in public (see below). Half a dozen Latin American nations-Haiti, the Dominican Republic. Nicaragua, Guatemala, Peru and Paraguay-have already broken off diplomatic relations with Castro...
More than 35 years ago, a stocky Peruvian student named Victor Raul Haya de la Torre started one of Latin America's first mass-based political movements. He called it the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), and from the moment of its founding Haya was so harassed by Peru's wealthy oligarchy and archconservative military that he spent at least 30 of the 36 years in prison, in asylum or out of the country. Last week -protected by APRA's current alliance with the enlightened conservatism of Peru's President Manuel Prado-Haya de la Torre...
...aides launched Operation Unitas, an unprecedented, four-month, South American antisub exercise. A U.S. task force centered around the sub Odax rendezvoused first with the Venezuelan and Colombian fleets in the Caribbean, then maneuvered with Ecuador's navy, turned south and linked up simultaneously with the Peruvian and Chilean navies. Finally, it conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that a reporter aboard wrote, "It looked like...
...painful descent, and Norman Mailer was painfully aware of it ("Self-pity is one of my vices"). Soon telltale signs of instability began to appear. He quarreled with his editors, darkly accused the typesetters of deliberately mutilating his words. His second marriage, to Adele Morales, a lush Peruvian-Spanish painter and actress, fluctuated from serenity in the morning to raging public brawls at night. Usually an affable man, Mailer became morose and belligerent. In Provincetown last summer he was jailed after a fight with police that began when he hailed a prowl car under the impression that...
...natural sympathy with the Cuban revolution has been shaken by Khrushchev's rocket-rattling, and by the discovery that the agents of Communism and subversion are already spreading from the Cuban beachhead to the interior of the hemisphere. Last week the Organization of American States unanimously approved a Peruvian proposal to consider the threat of Soviet intervention at a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers at San Jose, Costa Rica...