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...Congress. None of the three major presidential candidates got a clear majority. This left it to Congress, still controlled by Castillo Armas' M.D.N. party, to choose between the two front runners. Unofficial returns gave Rightist General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes 177,198 votes, M.D.N, Candidate Colonel Jose Luis Cruz Salazar, former Ambassador to Washington, 132,087, and the leftist Revolutionary Party candidate, Mario Mendez Montenegro...
...Jorge Ubico dictatorship, General Ydigoras, 62, is a hardworking, fluent spellbinder, backed by feudal landlords. Though anticlerical in the past, he casually promised to have a famed Guatemalan priest canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. M.D.N. charged that he also dropped leaflets by airplane on election day announcing that Cruz Salazar had just withdrawn from the race...
COLONEL JOSE Luis CRUZ SALAZAR, 37, heir of Castillo Armas' middle-of-the-road Nationalist Democratic Movement (M.D.N.). A career army officer sent to Washington as Castillo Armas' ambassador, he is firmly in the U.S. camp. He has the support of the younger officers who carry most weight in the army, a strong point in his favor in case of opposition attempts to short-circuit a Cruz Salazar victory either before or after the fact. His slogan: "Neither left nor right...
...votes, Ydigoras can count heavily on Guatemala City and several middle-sized towns. Cruz Salazar has a slight edge with the well-oiled M.D.N., which controls and can deliver the votes of whole plantations, towns and villages. Mendez Montenegro is strapped for campaign funds, but much of the country's working class is behind him. With three strong candidates splitting the electorate, chances were good that none of them could win more than 50% of the vote, as required by the constitution. In such case, the M.D.N.-dominated Congress must choose between the two front-runners-which could lead...
...JAMES Santa Cruz, Calif...