Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burton filmed Graham Greene's novel, The Comedians, Dahomey's chief claim to notoriety is its penchant for coups d'état. Since 1963, the tiny West African state (pop. 2,500,000 in an area of 44,290 sq. mi.) has experienced four coups, all bloodless. Last week Dahomey suffered its fifth coup in six years, but this time the takeover was not bloodless. When President Emile Zinsou, 51, an able, French-trained medical doctor, arrived at his seaside palace in his black Citröen limousine, soldiers opened fire with automatic weapons, wounding...
...bloodless takeover itself was un remarkable in a country which, during its 144-year history, has had 185 changes of government, mostly by coups. The ousted civilian President, Lawyer Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, was serving' as Vice President last April when President René Barrientos, the flamboyant ex-air chief, was killed in a helicopter crash. Ovando, the army chief and Barrientos' partner in the 1964 coup against Victor Paz Estenssoro, was in the U.S. at the time. Except for that fact, he almost certainly would have seized power then...
...back. The baby gave two minute, almost inaudible squeaks as it writhed briefly in the hairy embrace of the spider. The poison took effect, and then the spider turned and marched off, the baby hanging limply from his jaws." Happily, Durrell refrains from following this description with a bloodless dissertation on the importance of nature's balance. He is far too humane not to have been on the side of the bird. Indeed one of his most endearing traits is his capacity to react to animals as he would to people. Animals seem to find it endearing too. Like...
...truck driver with a guitar. For the last 13 years Parker has kept his charge virtually invisible to live audiences-limiting him to records, movies, one TV special and no interviews. Now is the time, the Colonel senses, for the comeback bid. Teen-agers seem to be tiring of bloodless electronic experimentation and intellectualism, and may be ready to discover for themselves the simplistic, hard-driving Big Beat-as the '50s generation discovered it after the cool complexities of bop and progressive jazz...
...almost planetary sense. In an era in which most people accept violence as the way life is, Ginsberg has managed to remain fervently gentle. If he still calls for nothing less than a complete revolution, he also insists that his role within it will be a compassionate and bloodless one. "I'm willing to die for freedom," he told an interviewer recently, "but I'm not willing to kill for it." Such a distinction, and the commitment to it, seems to make sense to a considerable number of Americans-especially the young, who would have...