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Colombian and Peruvian diplomats had worked out a face-saving compromise to end their long, bitter deadlock over Haya. As part of the deal, Peru's Minister of Justice took Haya into technical custody for one hour, then drove him to the airport-where a watchful motorcycle cop followed the departing plane right to the end of the runway...
Peru's Foreign Office announced last week that diplomatic negotiations with Colombia in Bogotá had produced a neighborly agreement for the ending of Latin America's most celebrated case of political asylum: that of Peruvian Leftist Leader Haya de la Torre, accused of heading an abortive revolution in 1948. A refugee in Colombia's Lima embassy since 1949, Haya will probably be allowed to go into exile in Uruguay...
...stranger runs well-documented risks in the Peruvian jungleland east of the Andes. Some have had their heads lopped off and shrunken as trophies; others have been eaten alive by ants; still others have been emasculated like steers, fattened on oily berries and served up to cannibals. Leonard Clark of San Francisco is an experienced jungle man who risked these dangers to look for gold and lived to tell about it. In The Rivers Ran East, he has written one of the most rousing adventure yarns of the season...
...heard of a man in Lima who had a treasure map. Sure enough, Clark found his man and paid him $100 for "a yellowed, badly cracked and very old Spanish parchment." From the little road's-end town of La Merced one July morning, accompanied by a Peruvian guide, he headed into the bush and six months of savagery...
Last week the Peruvian Minister of Education announced that a special Cabinet meeting, presided over by President Manuel Odria, had decided that the Linguistic Institute's research and teaching among the Indians would continue with the full backing of the Peruvian government. Townsend had promised to use the Catholic version of the Bible in his religion course, and the government would increase its financial aid to the Church's own jungle missions. Said Townsend: "Of course, when I see a jungle Indian worshiping a boa constrictor, I want to teach him to worship the Lord instead...