Word: bloodlessness
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Despite his dynastic pretensions, the Shah was not to the monarchy born. His commoner father Reza Khan, a hot-tempered colonel in the Persian Cossack cavalry, seized power in a bloodless coup in 1921. He forced parliament to dissolve the decadent, 129-year-old Qajar dynasty in 1925 and proclaim him Shah. He took Pahlavi-an ancient Persian language -as his dynastic name. Following his coronation, his first-born son Mohammed Reza, then seven, was designated crown prince. The elder Shah paraded the child around in gold-encrusted uniforms, groomed him in sports and, when he was twelve, packed...
...them also seemed dangerously swayed by fraternal feelers from North Korea; they proposed, among other things, a bilateral conference of students of the two countries. The army, which had stood neutrally by as Rhee was toppled, suspected subversion. On May 16, 1961, a group of officers staged a bloodless, predawn coup against the hapless Chang government. Among the junta's leaders, soon to emerge at the top: Park Chung...
...kind of story that Disraeli the novelist could have written, and perhaps in his own way did. In this version it seems curiously bloodless, however. The women, particularly Peach and Leach, are splendid, and McShane is adequate. The problem is with the producers: there is too much story packed into too little time. One second Disraeli is out of office; the next second he is in-and then out again. Disraeli is dizzying indeed. The confusion has been added to by the show's American editors, who have cut approximately half an hour from the four episodes...
...coup was virtually bloodless; nevertheless, it turned the capital, Kampala, into a ghost town of deserted streets and shuttered houses, as citizens, still smarting from Amin's lethal rule, played it safe and stayed indoors. It was small comfort that the takeover was apparently masterminded by a former leader of the anti-Amin resistance: Paulo Muwanga, 56, Binaisa's Labor Minister and chairman of the six-member military commission of the Uganda National Liberation Front, which was formed in 1979 to topple Amin...
...brewing in the South Yemen capital. Ostensibly for reasons of health, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 40, had resigned as his country's President and secretary-general of the ruling Socialist Party. Replacing him in both positions was Prime Minister Ali Nasser Muhammad, 41. In fact, there had been a bloodless coup...