Word: bloodlessness
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...this time, a bloody raid gets a bloodless Israeli response
...Israelis' declared intent was to protect their northern settlements from Palestinian guerrilla raids that both the U.N. and the Christian Militia forces seemed powerless to stop. Unlike their previous search-and-destroy missions into Lebanon last May and September, however, the Israelis' foray this time was bloodless. Then, by week's end-in a surprisingly cooperative response to U.N. entreaties and some arm twisting from Washington-they began to withdraw...
Both participants suffer. Ben Ata is slowly ennobled by contact with his bride, but at a cost of self-confidence. His once brutal decisiveness has been tempered by the uncertainties of reflection. Al∙Ith, experienced in the bloodless sex of her own zone, sinks into a passion and carnality as frightful to her as it is exhilarating...
Behind any persuasion, of course, must be the belief that a nation will take draconian steps. But the capability must be there for credibility. The White House is nearly convinced that we must apply some kind of "bloodless military pressure" to lodge that message in the minds of allies and enemies. But a central question remains: Would Carter ever send U.S. forces into real combat for the national interest...
...empire was mercifully short-lived. While Bokassa was away in Libya last week, he was deposed in a bloodless, midnight coup by former President David Dacko, himself overthrown by Bokassa in 1966. The downfall of the "Butcher of Bangui" gave Africa something to cheer about: the continent is now rid of its three most notorious dictators. In April, Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada was driven from Uganda by rebels and invading Tanzanian troops. Last month the equally despised President-for-Life of tiny Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macias Nguema, was booted by a military coup...