Word: otilio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head of a junta, and in the next 18 months he dissolved the army, expanded social-welfare programs, gave women the vote and nationalized the banks. Then, by prior agreement, he stepped aside in favor of the man whose election had led to the attempted coup in 1948, Otilio Ulate. Four years later, Figueres was elected to a presidential term of his own. In 1958, he retired to his ranch-style home near San Jose, where he still lives with his blonde U.S.-born second wife Karen and their four children...