Contacts will disappear after bulk vCard import

Hi all,
After bulk importing multiple 700 vCard contacts to the Address Book application (Version 8.0 - 1371) on Mac OX Mavericks, they disappear after closing and reopening the application, just showing the original 7 iCloud contacts I previously created.
Facts:
I am trying to import (by drag & drop) 700 vCards 2.1 - windows latin 1 (already selected this format in the Address Book Settings), created with Outlook 2002.
Address Book is connected to iCloud
Already tried, unsuccessfully:
Merging previously all vCard into a single one.
Doing the import after disconnecting iCloud, merging the contacts, reactivating iCloud.
Doing the import after disconnecting WiFi and LAN, merging the contacts (even without reactivating them afterwards).
Creating a new contact after the import before closing the application.
The previous 3 combined.
Importing the merged vCard directly on iCloud (getting Error though the file doesn't exceed the limitations)
In any case is that after closing the application the imported contact not be there any more: only the 7 iCloud contacts (or the "on this mac" if iCloud deactivated) will remain in the Agenda. I do not think it has to do with iCloud.
I the only clue I have, is that importing the vCards one by one, or in small groups (>10), they "may" remain recorded in the Address Book.
Does anyone have an idea or workaround to make this bulk import of vCard contacts?
Thanks,

So I had to do it manually... in blocks of 5-15 to see the conflicting vCards, that would not be recorded (and hence not automatically synchronized with iCloud).
Out of the 712 contacts, 8 were not recognized by the Adressbook.
No idea why, because the other 704 vCards were in the same format (v2.1) and codification (Windows latin 1), and where having also special characters in the .vcf filename or in the data inside.
I think there is a codification/import issue that Apple should check.

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