Word: bloodlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bloodless coup capped a week-long power struggle between the President and his army commander-in-chief. Once again the big losers were the Haitian people, who continue to endure one of the world's lowest standards of living (annual per capita income: $333) and who have gained little from the top- level game of musical chairs that began with the February 1986 ouster of Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Said an embittered young woman waiting at a Port-au-Prince bus depot last week: "Nothing has really changed. We remain with nothing." The mood was cautious in Washington, where...
...start, the Kennedy School's mission -- to create a "public policy profession," in Harvard President Derek Bok's words -- has been controversial. To the tweedy professors at the university who like their professions traditional and their academics pure, the new training ground smacks of a trade school for bloodless bureaucrats. To those who think governing emanates as much from the heart as the brain, the Kennedy School is, like Dukakis, too systematic and process-oriented. It is politics for non- emoters comfortable with decision trees and regression analyses...
...recent interview Williams said that during the filming in Thailand a group of American expatriate women were on hand in a nearby sound booth, their reactions piped into an earphone Williams wore out of camera shot. This arrangement, it was hoped, would inject some vitality into the bloodless recording sessions; but in the end the plan was abandoned, as it ruined Williams' timing...
...Shortly after sunrise last Saturday, Tunisians flipping on their radios heard startling news. The regime of Habib Bourguiba, ruler of Tunisia since the country gained its independence from France in 1956 and President-for-Life since 1975, had come to an abrupt end. After carrying out a bloodless takeover in the predawn hours, Prime Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali took to the airwaves at 6:30 to declare that Bourguiba, 84, had been ousted. Citing a constitutional provision allowing the President to be removed if he is incapacitated, the Prime Minister claimed that a team of seven doctors...
Lieut. Colonel Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was a hero. A leader of the bloodless coup of 1974 that brought democracy to Portugal after 48 years of right-wing dictatorship, Otelo ran unsuccessfully for President in 1976 and again four years later. But last week, after a 19-month trial, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "undermining" the government. The court ruled that an organization Otelo founded was a front for the Forcas Populares 25 de Abril, the shadowy terrorist group responsible for a wave of assassinations and bombings since 1980. Forty-seven co-defendants were also convicted...