Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 50 people were arrested. The coup was bloodless, the country calm. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin, arriving by road from India without a visa, was quickly admitted at the border. "Good news," remarked an immigration officer. "Now we have the army, and they will give us elections...
...presenting the story through the experiences of a few individuals--people close to Allende, a factory worker--Soto shows the nobility and courage of those who resisted the takeover and turned what was to be a bloodless coup into armed struggle. Allende and his aides die in slow motion, eerily, as if Soto wished to engrave their deaths indelibly in the audience's memory. The experiences and observations of Laurnet Furzieff, a French journalist who watches scenes in the street, the destruction of the Moneda Palace, and the grotesque rejoicing of the upper classes, lend coherence to the film. Furzieff...
...vital industries. Under the inept government of Juan Perón 's widow Isabel, inflation in Argentina was galloping at an annual rate of 350%. The Treasury, down to its last foreign reserves, was about to default on its overseas debt. Then, on March 24, in a bloodless, clockwork coup, the military deposed Isabel Peron from the presidency. Led by the Commander in Chief of the army, Jorge Rafael Videla, the new junta set two goals: crushing terrorism and reviving the economy. How well has it done? Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand cabled this assessment...
...obliged to act as guardian, a relationship still little known to the public. Thus if the efforts to settle the Maine case by mediation fail, it is the Justice Department that will file suit against property owners on behalf of the Indians-a prospect that can only salt the bloodless wounds already incurred...
...been in a battle; not near one, nor heard one from afar, nor seen the aftermath." Sensibly, he did not try to make up for this gap in his experience by seeking out a battle and joining up. But he also found the massive literature on warfare oddly bloodless...