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...Robert Daniel Murphy, 83, tough-minded diplomat, and in 1959 Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; after suffering a stroke; in Manhattan. As General Eisenhower's diplomatic liaison during World War II, Murphy worked with the French underground, mixing negotiation, espionage and bluffing to engineer the virtually bloodless surrender of Algiers to the Allies in 1942. In 1948 he helped to devise the Berlin airlift when the Soviets blockaded the city, and four years later became the first postwar Ambassador to Japan, helping negotiate an end to the Korean War. Although Murphy retired in 1959, he continued...
Such reticence makes Adams' Eliza Hamilton Quarles a pallid, rather bloodless character. As a woman who came of age 20 years ago, Eliza is well versed in the arts of discretion and coping. She has to be. Her sexually ambivalent husband killed himself after becoming keen on a beautiful boy, leaving her with a baby daughter and an unfulfilled life. Eliza has little instinct for what her mother Josephine calls the "social realities." Josephine is formidable: a successful writer with another daughter and a number of former husbands left in or under the dust. She is also a hardheaded...
...Although brother Karl would perhaps find my hope of a bloodless transformation Utopian, I feel it is our moral duty--to use a corny phrase--to try to make it through with as few sanguinary repercussions as possible," he said...
...more than 50 people were arrested. The coup was bloodless, the country calm. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin, arriving by road from India without a visa, was quickly admitted at the border. "Good news," remarked an immigration officer. "Now we have the army, and they will give us elections...
...presenting the story through the experiences of a few individuals--people close to Allende, a factory worker--Soto shows the nobility and courage of those who resisted the takeover and turned what was to be a bloodless coup into armed struggle. Allende and his aides die in slow motion, eerily, as if Soto wished to engrave their deaths indelibly in the audience's memory. The experiences and observations of Laurnet Furzieff, a French journalist who watches scenes in the street, the destruction of the Moneda Palace, and the grotesque rejoicing of the upper classes, lend coherence to the film. Furzieff...