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Spanish is the national language of Peru, but close to half a million Peruvians in the vast Amazon jungle areas speak only primitive native tongues and have no written languages. This block to mass education has long been a worrisome problem for the Peruvian government...
After Sunday Mass in their Peruvian village, Toribio Condori and his wife slipped off their shoes to walk home in comfort. On the way, Toribio cut his toe badly on a rock. While he howled, his wife told him how lucky he was. "If you had not taken them off," and she pointed to the shoes dangling over his arm, "you would have ruined them...
...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...
Almost all the applications are for areas in the Sechura desert, just south of the long-established north coast field at Talara (output: 33,000 bbls. a day). International Petroleum, a Canadian subsidiary of Standard Oil (N.J.) which operates Talara, is a major Sechura bidder. Other foreign applicants: Peruvian Gulf, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corp.; Richmond Petroleum, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California; Conorada, jointly owned by Continental Oil, Ohio Oil and Amerada Petroleum Corp., principal wildcatter in North Dakota's new and gushing Williston Basin. All of these except Peruvian Gulf have asked for both exploration...
...Fernando de Breckemeyer, Peruvian ambassador to the United States, was entertained yesterday by the Society of Fellows at an Eliot House luncheon...