Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu and ex-Premier Moise Tshombe were locked in a power struggle that had paralyzed the government, threatened to plunge the nation into another senseless civil war. "Political bankruptcy was complete," said Lieut. General Joseph Mobutu, the army commander, after his bloodless coup. "We are going to impose the spirit of discipline...
Achieving the Symbol. The intense activity represents the latest stage in Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi's three-year-old "White Revolution" (so called because it has been bloodless), a grand design that is intended to wrest Iran from the middle ages into modern industrialized society. Having laid the groundwork through extensive land reforms and a massive literacy drive and aided by annual oil royalties worth more than $500 million and an influx of $2 billion in foreign investment capital, the Shah has launched his country headlong into what is far and away the Middle East's fastest-moving...
...motorcycle that summer day in 1962 when he lost control and rammed a driveway culvert. His severed right foot hung by a ribbon of skin and other tissues; its two major arteries had been cut. By the time he was carried to Oakland's Highland Hospital, his bloodless leg was a deathly white, mottled with blue. Amputation seemed unavoidable. But Larsen was a young giant (then 22) in top physical condition, and a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Walter L. Byers decided that there was some hope...
...choler was the Viet Cong attack on two U.S. camps at Pleiku in February. Eight Americans died, 125 were wounded. "I've had enough of this," raged the President. Next day, scores of U.S. Navy jets roared beyond the 17th parallel for the first time to plaster "bloodless" military installations in North Viet Nam. In return, the Viet Cong blew up a U.S. enlisted men's billet in the port city of Qui Nhon. This time the U.S. and South Viet Nam replied with a joint 160-plane raid...
Among other things, President Héctor García-Godoy and his beleaguered provisional government could use a good laugh. Last week they got at least a chuckle-from a bloodless, sadly undernourished attempted coup that looked like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan...