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...Mobutu is Moise Tshombe, 47, the wily pro-Western politician who ran copper-rich Katanga as a secessionist state in the early 1960s, later served for 15 months as the Con o's Premier, and still commands wide support in the country. After Mobutu seized power in a bloodless army-backed coup 21 months ago, he forced Tshombe into permanent exile, later had him sentenced to death in absentia for high treason. Mobutu sees the hand of Tshombe in every disturbance in the Congo, is convinced that he is plotting a comeback...
...violators. Troops patrolled the streets with orders to shoot anyone who broke the dusk-to-dawn curfew. The seizure was such a model of military precision that no one had time to organize a protest. Despite some rumors of shooting in Athens and Salonica, the coup was virtually bloodless...
...clear whether the bloodless coup, which began at Thursday midnight, had the full blessing of King Constantine. But the King did sign a royal decree suspending all articles of the Constitution, proclaim military rule and preside at a ceremony that installed the former chief prosecutor of Greece's Supreme Court, Constantine Kolias, as its new premier...
White Revolution. Through the Shah's "White Revolution" (so called because it is bloodless), Iran's 25 million people now enjoy a robust economy, with an industrial sector that grew by 17% in the past year. Foreign investment, once almost nonexistent, has advanced to $186 million a year, and exports in the past decade have quadrupled to $1.3 billion. In the past 18 months, Iran has signed long-term trade and military deals with both East and West involving nearly $3 billion; the latest provides for the exchange of Iranian oil for $40 million worth of Rumanian grain...
...most gigantic experiment in remolding human nature that has ever been attempted--an experiment, which they claim, the Soviet Union could not and dared not embark upon. They point out that there is a considerable difference between Stalinism and Maoism because 1) the Chinese purges are bloodless, 2) the philosophy behind this Revolution is based on a theory of class struggle within a socialist society, and 3) Stalin did not have a plan for establishing "communes." A considerable portion of the Japanese intellectual community falls into this category...