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...heart attack; in Guadalmina, Spain. Born into the lower classes, Batista joined the army in 1921 and learned its inner workings by transcribing the political trials held in the regime of Gerardo Machado. In 1933 he seized control of the army and the country in a bloodless -but genuine-"sergeants' revolution." But he soon learned the lavish ways of Latin dictators: gambling and prostitution flourished in Havana while government officials built monumental bank accounts from sugar deals with the U.S. In an ill-considered play for popularity, Batista released hundreds of political prisoners in 1955; one of them, Fidel...
Died. Julio ("Big Julio") Adalberto Rivera, 52, President of El Salvador from 1962 to 1967 and recently Ambassador to the United States; of a heart attack; in El Salvador. As an army colonel, Rivera engineered a bloodless barracks coup in 1961 and became President the following year. He broke the grip of the coffee-plantation owners on the country's economy and instituted reforms that resulted in a higher standard of living for El Salvador's peasants...
...cryogenics (application of temperatures close to absolute zero*) and helped to adapt an extremely cold probe to destroy hard-to-reach pituitary tissue in brain operations. Now Rand is making use of another recently utilized phenomenon: superconductivity. With the help of a powerful "superconductive" magnet, he is accomplishing knifeless, bloodless destruction of tumors...
...contest of wills with President Juan María Bordaberry that ended Monday, the Uruguayan army and air force (later joined by the navy) pulled off a golpe blando, or "soft coup" -so called not only because it was bloodless, but because it left the civilian regime intact, if impotent. In exchange for salvaging his title and office, Bordaberry surrendered most of his powers to the armed forces. The military will have the final say in a newly appointed "security council" embracing both civilian ministers and top-ranking military commanders. The council's real functions will be carried...
...economy, slowly revving up since the late 1940s with the help of a steady infusion of American economic and military aid, has lately taken off under the austere stewardship of the rightist military regime of Colonel George Papadopoulos. The junta, which seized power in a bloodless 1967 coup, has wooed foreign investors with tax breaks and low-interest loans, and has helped to create a healthy business climate by ruthlessly suppressing political unrest. By last December, when postwar American aid had reached $3.95 billion, the regime announced proudly that further handouts would no longer be needed...