Word: bloodlessness
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...violence and volatility of Central America, described with bloodless urgency in the Kissinger report, were brought home in a more poignant way last week in the isthmus. A U.S. Army observation helicopter was forced down under mysterious circumstances in Honduran territory. The pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Jeffery C. Schwab, 27, of Joliet, Ill., was killed by Sandinistas firing from 100 yds. away across the Nicaraguan border. He was the first U.S. serviceman to die in combat in Honduras since the U.S. began greatly expanding its military presence in that country a year ago (three have died in accidents), and only...
...army moved on the last day of 1983, pulling off a well-planned and almost bloodless coup with efficiency. At 2:30 a.m., troops in widely scattered parts of the country moved out of their barracks and set up roadblocks at strategic points. By 3 a.m. they had secured the radio and television stations in Lagos and had begun to take prominent politicians into custody. They temporarily cut international telephone and telex lines and closed down airports, border posts and the port of Lagos. At 7:30, a member of the new junta, Brigadier Sana Abacha, announced over Nigerian radio...
...then announced that all political parties were being banned and communications with the outside world suspended, and that a dusk-to-dawn curfew was being imposed. Only four months after Nigeria's 25.4 million voters re-elected Shagari to a second four-year term, it appeared that a bloodless military coup-or at least an attempt-had taken place in Africa's most populous country (pop. about 85 million) and one of its foremost democracies...
...Soviet Union. In 1970, Assad staged a bloodless coup and launched his "corrective movement." He lifted martial law, which had been in effect since 1967, halted the nationalization of industry and improved relations with Egypt and the conservative gulf states. Syria felt it had acquitted itself well in the 1973 war with Israel, vindicating its pitiful performance six years earlier. Diplomatic ties with the U.S., severed by the 1967 war, were resumed after Richard Nixon's visit to Damascus in 1974. Supplemented by handouts from the gulf states and revenues from its petroleun pipeline during the oil boom...
After leading a bloodless coup in 1970, Hafez Assad took over and appeared to be a relative moderate. He signed a disengagement agreement with Israel over the Golan Heights in 1974. He sent his army into Lebanon in 1976 to save the Maronite Christians from defeat by the Palestine Liberation Organization and a coalition of leftist Muslim forces. He told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in 1977 that he was ready to make peace with the Israelis if they would withdraw from the territory they had captured in the 1967 war. But in the past three years, as he has fought...