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Should any of these deals come off, Independent Plaza's presidential chances will improve. In last week's count he led Conservative Manuel Elicio Flor 115,846 to 111,970, and when the last few returns were examined this week the Electoral Court would probably proclaim his election. But Congress can still annul Plaza's majority. With a few achievements in the U.S., go-getting Galo Plaza could convince the last diehards that they had better string along with...
...eight years of revolution & counterrevolution, and five Presidents (only one of whom was elected), the country had finally had a rootin', tootin' reasonable facsimile of a U.S.-style campaign ; it had ended in a fairly honest election. The unofficial tally: Independent Galo Plaza, 116,496; Conservative Manuel Elicio Flor, 112,509; Liberal Alberto Enriquez, 56,942. Even so, Galo Plaza was not necessarily the President-elect...
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