Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-19
Resistance Is Negligible

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momentum.
Resistance Is Negligible
Some students threw stones
and set fire to an automobile
but they offered little resistance,
Three students we're reported
wounded during the day.
A bigger threat to the junta
came from the giant confed-
Grafton of labor, whose leaders
were reported considering a
general strike in protest against
the military seizure of power.
The confederation controls rs
per cent of the nations labor
force.
The United States quickly
denounced the coup. suspended
diplomatic relations with Peru
and halted further Alliance for
Progress aid, which has been
pouring into the country at the
rate Of SIS million a year.
The United States action
stopped short Of a full break
in diplomatic relations, and
United States Ambassador
James Loeb was ordered to
remain in Lima to report de-
velopments. Such consular re-
lations between the two coun-
tries as issuance of visas and
commercial arrangements will
continue.
Further Aid withheld
United States aid projects
already under way-school
lunches, road, water and sewage
work and low-income housing
also will continue but no new
United States help can be nego-
tiated until Peru gets g. gov
eminent the United States
recognizes.
Four Latin American nations
Venezuela. Colombia, Costa
Rica and the Dominican Re-
public-also refused at once to
recognize the military regime
and suspended diplomatic re-
lations.
Brazil, Mexico and Panama
said they were studying the
situation.
Venezuela proposed a meet
ing Of the foreign ministers of
the American republics for a
joint protest against the mill
tary takeover. There was doubt
that the suggestion would make
much Roadway, however, for
fear Of charges of intervening
in the internal affairs of Peru.
Mr.. Prado. 70, denied to the
last the military chiefs charge
that the elections had been
rugged. He was reported being
held in the area of Callao,
Lima's seaport. Unconfirmed
reports said he was aboard a
warship, at the Callao naval
armory or aboard an offshore
island.
Several other officials were
reported held with him.
Victor Raul Haya de la Tore,
: front-runner in last months
presidential race and the mill
, tary's longtime chief target
disappeared amid reports he
! had taken asylum in the Vene-
zuelan embassy.
He spent five years in the
Colombian embassy after Gen
, Manuel Odria's coup in 1948.
: Gen. Perez Godoy, the So
: year-old military commander in
chief and head of the L.
) man junta, pledged in a broad
cast to the nation that honest
and clean elections" will be
held next June and civilian
government will return by July
%. 1868, a year to the day
, after Mr.. Prado's elected sue
cessor would have taken office
Gen. Perez Godoy said the
military had taken power be-
cause "a group of politicians
who place party interests above
national interest has car
ried out great electoral fraud
in the June 10 elections.
He said the junta members
renounce ANY present or fu-
ture political ambition" and
have a concrete and inflexi.
BILE determination not to re.
main in the government longer
than necessary for carrying
out new elections"
The government radio broad.
cast two DEGREES by the junta
One dissolved and declared null
and void the electoral boards
which supervised the June cleo.
tons, in effect cancelling the
election results. This left the
nation without a congress, since
the term Of the previous con-
greSs has expired.
The second degree called fol
elections on the second Sun
day of June. 1868. and ordered
a review beforehand Of all reg.
istration rolls in the country
The military had charged pre-.
viously that Mr.. Haya's APRA
party had falsified the rolls ir
province where it is strong.
PradO Defends Election
Mr.. Prado when he surren.
dered to military arrest left
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