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...waiting for my son to have a better life-I want a better life." So says a member of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry's Acción Popular party. He was talking about Belaúnde's land-reform program-the sensible, carefully thought-out plan that, when it was signed into law 19 months ago, was hailed by experts as the soundest ever set up in the hemisphere. For many Peruvians, the rub is that the project to settle 1,000,000 peasants on their own land and double the country's acreage under...
...went Premier Fernando Schwalb and a Cabinet chosen chiefly for its skills in steering Belaúnde's reform program. In as Premier came Dr. Daniel Becerra de la Flor, 59, a leading surgeon and a Senator from Belaúnde's Acción Popular party. With him came eleven new ministers, all Deputies or Senators, except for military men in the armed forces ministries. Said Belaúnde: "The new Cabinet will seek closer cooperation with the opposition...
...move. While guards were looking the other way during an exercise period, he raced down to the shore, tore off his shoes and plunged into the chill Pacific, crying dramatically: "I have chosen freedom!"-only to have a nearby yachtsman return him to prison. All through the next week, Acción Popular demonstrations continued, until the government let him go just to be rid of him. Returning to the mainland, Belaúnde hugged his parents, then thundered: "Arequipa awaits me," and charged off to a tumultuous demonstration in his family home town down the coast...
...election that would bring in a whole new Congress. Just as angrily, the opposition carried a measure in Congress censuring Belaúnde's Premier, Oscar Trelles, and forced him to resign. In the midst of the melee, however, Belaúnde strengthened his fragile mandate when his Acción Popular defeated the combined opposition in municipal elections with 47% of the vote...
...lieutenants, takes pains to buttonhole opposition Congressmen for arm-in-arm chats and friendly lunches at the presidential palace. The far-leftists who once supported Belaúnde are no longer welcome. In the past six months, his police have been jailing extremists all over the country, and his Acción Popular Party has expelled its former general secretary, Leftist Mario Villarán. Last April, when Peru's 10,000 Communist-controlled bank employees went on strike, Belaúnde threatened to lift their social security rights unless they went back to their jobs. They...