Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambodian problem serves only as a pretext. The greatest mistake of the U.S. is not the Vietnam War. It is this strategy of using Vietnam as a pawn in the relationship between China and the U.S. It would be much better if the U.S. considered Vietnam in terms of its intrinsic value...
...that the reporter is always an acquiescent pawn: manipulation is a two- way street. In a series of New Yorker articles that was recently published in book form, writer Janet Malcolm argues that the journalist's power to play God with a source's life inevitably leads to treachery. She examines the case of best-selling author Joe McGinniss, who ingratiated himself (and shared a book contract) with Jeffrey MacDonald, a physician accused of brutally murdering his wife and children. But instead of writing the exculpatory tome that MacDonald had been led to expect, McGinniss produced a work of pitiless...
...Duarte's government. The death squads returned; mutilated bodies once again littered the roadsides. And the leftist guerrillas regained their momentum, waging successful assaults on military and economic targets throughout the country. As the country spun back toward chaos, Salvadorans came to regard Duarte as little better than a pawn of the Reagan Administration. That October, when Duarte journeyed to Washington for a White House visit with Ronald Reagan, he touched his hosts by kissing the American flag. At home, that same image came to symbolize the power that Duarte had forfeited...