Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian T-54 tanks, drove northward toward Aleppo. Since it was clear that no help was coming from Cairo, the rebels hastily submitted, and, even before the armored column reached Aleppo's outskirts, the garrison humbly informed Damascus it was obeying orders and confining itself to barracks. Relatively bloodless though it was, the Aleppo revolt nevertheless made history of a sort-it was Syria's second in a week, its eighth in 13 years and, finally, the only military revolt in Syria that has ever failed...
...bloodless battle on the heights can resume along the obscure, 2,500-mile frontier between the two giant lands of Asia. From April to October, Chinese mountain troops will prowl the lofty boundary, seeking new undefended peaks or valleys on which to plant the flag of Peking. Near by, Gurkhas and turbaned Sikhs will try to head them off. But since it is essentially a struggle of nerves, each side is more likely to stare than to shoot...
...Sandhurst graduate, General Ayub overthrew a discredited parliamentary government in a bloodless coup in October 1958, has since used martial law to rescue the overwhelmingly illiterate (88%) country from political and financial chaos and corruption. Three years ago, he retired to his teak-paneled study in Karachi, gave himself a cram course in Thomas Jefferson, and emerged with a plan for basic democracies: 80,000 village elders elected to panchayats (councils) that were to levy local taxes, maintain roads, run police forces. While the panchayats nurtured democracy at the grass roots, Ayub Khan continued to practice autocracy...
...partly from husbandly affection, partly because he is too weak to resist: he has always had "a fatal desire to please." He begins to neglect his work, live on her money, belabor the booze. The tabloids play him up as a "playboy psychiatrist." And strangely, by a species of bloodless transfusion, she gets stronger as he gets weaker. In the end, she breaks her dependency, breaks the marriage, breaks his spirit. She goes on to another marriage. He goes back to a small town in upstate New York...
...reflects the book's focal paradox: Sammael is the angel of death, but Samson, as the author explains (stoutly refusing to allow himself the joys of obscurantism) means "of the sun, solar." The bookseller is subverter, protector, panderer and priest to a group of curious cripples-Julius, his bloodless, asexual young assistant; Louise, a housewife whose husband thinks her job is honest modeling; Bert, a cheerful, muscled vacuum; Veronica, a faintly mad Soho drifter; and Bateman, a policeman. Louise, Bert and Veronica pose for the pornographic pictures, and Bateman, assigned by headquarters to investigate the bookstore, shifts allegiance...