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...Some people may tremble when they hear what I will say," warned Peruvian President Juan Velasco Alvarado before delivering his independence day speech last week. No one in his audience was inclined to take the remark lightly. After six years of rule by Velasco's left-leaning military junta, Peruvians have learned that whatever the mercurial general says generally goes...
...applications for loans at the U.S. Export-Import Bank would be welcomed. Additionally, there are reports in Lima of U.S. banks' offering Peru a large ten-year credit line at 11% interest; Greene denies any connection with such an offer The betting in Peru is that President Juan Velasco Alvarado will accept some agreement in a month...
...insisted in New York last week that the bulk of the material has been available at the Paris headquarters of Interpol for years. But Farago was obviously offering fresh information when he quoted a "high-ranking official of the Central Intelligence Agency in Buenos Aires," one José Juan Velasco, as having been face to face with Bormann just last October. That episode created more mystery than it solved...
According to Farago, Velasco had been tracking Bormann for nine years; he was called to Mendoza, near the Chilean border, by an immigration inspector who became suspicious of a man carrying a passport in the name of Ricardo Bauer. When Velasco confronted the man, he had no doubt that he was Bormann. But while Velasco sought instructions from Buenos Aires, the man slipped away. Why did Velasco, supposedly a supersleuth, not act on his own initiative? Newsmen in Buenos Aires tried to find him to ask him. But Argentine security officials said that he did not exist. (Farago told TIME...
...spacious marble and granite palace on Lima's Plaza de Armas, Peru's leftist soldier-President, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, last week smilingly accepted the credentials of a tall, bearded diplomat named Antonio Núñez Jiménez. The new ambassador was a Cuban, the first from his country to take up residence in Lima since Peru broke off relations in 1960. The arrival of Núñez in Peru, which struggled with Cuban-supported, revolutionaries through much of the 1960s, was another sign of the increasing acceptance that Fidel Castro's regime...