Duplicated Groups in Contacts

Contacts has duplicated a Group around 1000 times and I can't remove these individually or I would be here 'til next century. Can you remove a block at a time?

It looked as if this was going to be helpful but when I ran teh Script it came up with the result 'missing value' but I have no idea what is missing...
Here is the script with teh name of teh primary offending duplicated group:
tell application "Contacts"
          repeat 50 times
                    set theGroup to group "Elders"
delete theGroup
          end repeat
save
end tell

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