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DIED. Muhammad Naguib, 83, Egyptian army officer who in 1952 became the country's first President and, briefly, a national hero after a bloodless coup toppled King Farouk; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Cairo. A hero of Egypt's 1948 war with Israel, Naguib was recruited to lead a movement of dissident younger officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, aimed at ending the monarchy; after the revolution Naguib was named commander in chief of the armed forces and, later, Prime Minister and President. But he soon ran afoul of Nasser; in 1954 he was forced...
...familiar. (Among anchormen only David Brinkley with his wry sanity brought any verbal distinction.) Politicians can be corny, boring or strident, but sometimes wholehearted, amusing or touching. They are an authentic, unpredictable slice of American life. Much of the time the networks preferred to substitute a filter of detached, bloodless and often disdainful commentary by their own people...
When the Argentine military removed President Isabel Perón from office in a bloodless coup eight years ago, most of the country bid her good riddance. Inflation had reached astronomical levels, the country teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, and in the streets, violence, kidnaping and murder ruled. Last week, however, the irrepressible Isabel returned to the political limelight in only her second visit home since she went into self-imposed exile in Spain after the 1976 military coup. This time, Argentina welcomed the widow of Juan Perón as if she were a visiting head of state...
Radio Conakry was still broadcasting funeral dirges and flowery eulogies last week for President Ahmed Sekou Toure, who had been buried only a few days earlier, when an anonymous spokesman broke in with a bulletin. Guinea's armed forces had seized power in a bloodless coup, the announcer declared. The goal, he went on, was to replace Toure's 26 years of "bloody and ruthless" rule with "true democracy." Word of the coup brought many rejoicing Guineans out into the streets...
Cesaire also embraced the struggle of Black Americans in "On the State of the Union," a highly sardonic poem on the murder of Emmet Till, a Black boy who allegedly eyed a white woman. The white Americans are described as bloodless, their hearts made of "tough antiseptic meat...