Word: elfego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The week's hottest gunfight: a re-creation of The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, an upright youth who gunned down a rampaging mob for 33 hours to bring order to a small New Mexico town...
Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, by right of conquest and popular acclaim, last week took the presidency of Guatemala. The temporary junta, of which he was a member and Colonel Elfego Monzon the head, saw no reason to prolong its nervous interregnum and unanimously voted Castillo Armas into office. Then two Monzon supporters resigned, leaving the junta composed of the new provisional President, one of the officers who fought in his rebel army, and Monzon, who stayed on to be the voice of the regular Guatemalan army. Castillo Armas' 2,000 tattered troops planned to muster...
Castillo Armas was not yet boss. In peace negotiations, the presidency of the ruling junta had been won, temporarily, by a fellow officer and an old schoolmate, Colonel Elfego Monzón, who had taken the leading part in the palace revolution that followed Castillo Armas' armed invasion. But the crowd went wild for Castillo Armas alone...