Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Without Bloodshed." A handsome architect turned politician, Belaúnde seems to have had the right blueprint. He sent troops into the highlands to restore law and order, then enacted a sensible land-reform bill that will provide land for the landless without destroying the big, productive estates on which...
Glossing over its dark side-the dogmatism, the factional fights, the bloodshed-the author argues that the revolutionaries, whatever their vices, fought for an egalitarian system, while the antirevolutionaries, whatever their virtues, were merely defending the aristocratic society. Palmer sees France's upheaval as a revolution of Western Civilization...
Too often King settles for tokens, rather than real progress. He has repeatedly accepted gains which are showy in appearance--such as the integration of a restaurant--but negligible in terms of the amount of effort and bloodshed expended and real value for local Negroes. King called off the demonstrations...
Just before flying back home from a three-week European tour, Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe reluctantly held still for conferences in Brussels with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II. Embarrassed by the concerted howling of Arab and African leftists against the U.S.-Belgian paradrop...
She charged the U.S. with needless bloodshed, quoting a State Dept. officer as saying, "Villages of 3,000 or more are bombed if they are thought to contain as few as five Viet Cong."