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...loudspeakers were switched off, the chanting supporters had left the plazas. Peru's 2,222,926 registered voters submitted themselves to the most elaborate anti-fraud safeguards in the country's history and then cast their votes for a new President from among three leading candidates: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 67, founder of the longoutlawed, Marxist-turned-moderate APRA Party; Fernando Belaunde Terry, 49, a wellborn, highly nationalistic architect who narrowly lost the 1956 presidential elections; and Manuel Odria, 64, Dictator-President of Peru from 1950 to 1956, who is remembered for both his strong...
...guard. At the top of O.R.I., there would now be a five-man secretariat headed by himself; Roca, listed No. 5, was the only old Communist named. Cuba would now have a Vice Premier to take over in case anything happened to the Maximum Leader himself: he would be Raul Castro, Fidel's brother. Then Castro went on TV to denounce the Reds and reassert his own leadership. He could not lambaste Roca (he was too strong), but he lashed out at Roca's lieutenant, Anibal Escalante, purged him from O.R.I, and drove him into exile in Czechoslovakia...
...factions who govern, and it is a U.S. worry that when it suits the Communists, Castro might be found murdered with a U.S. pistol lying near by. The same thought must trouble Castro, for he no longer moves around freely, unattended. Already assassination attempts have been reported against Brother Raul...
...eleven days, Argentina's dominant military demanded his resignation as the "best patriotic solution to maintain the constitutional structure of the nation." Frondizi's reply was always the same: "I do not resign, nor will I resign." At last, led by a tough army general named Raul Poggi, the military physically removed the constitutional President of the land, and so, for the time being, democracy died in Argentina...
...show as Castro's violent reaction to the increasingly bold Communist Party takeover. But Castro, who considers himself as much messiah as Marxist, refused to go quietly-and so did his wispy-mustached little brother Raúl. On Feb. 19, according to reports reaching Miami exiles, Raul shot and seriously wounded a party leader in Oriente province in an argument over who was boss...