Word: otilio
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Happy Jeep. Wearing his "lucky boots" and a silver-mounted .45 automatic, Costa Rica's Provisional President José Figueres jeeped happily around inspecting his outpost troops. With him rode President-elect Otilio Ulate. The foreign threat had given Figueres' faltering junta a popularity unknown since last spring's civil...
Well-armed rebels, fighting to give rightist Otilio Ulate the presidency to which he was elected last February, sat high in their southern mountains and beat off clumsy government attacks. In San José, leftist President Teodoro Picado and ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia, the men who had provoked the war by getting Ulate's election annulled as fraudulent, had found they could not control Comrade Mora; they had wooed him too long and too earnestly. Their police and troops, weakened by losses in the field, were nothing compared to his 1,500 well-disciplined shock troops...
...Neighbors. Meanwhile, Neighbor Guatemala took its stand behind the partisans of right-wing Editor Otilio Ulate, whose election had been annulled by Costa Rica's Congress. The rebels' commandeered TACA DC-35 made 19 trips to Guatemala for guns and ammunition. Led by a M.I.T.-trained planter [named] Jose Figueres, the Ulatistas fought so well that the government had to ask for more help...