Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, appearing on Soviet television to report on Vienna, Khrushchev seemed even more deadly in his threats. "A peace settlement in Europe must be accomplished this year," he said. And after the U.S.S.R. signs its peace treaty with puppet East Germany, the East German government can cut off the supply corridors to West Berlin if it pleases. Any Western attempt to force passage to West Berlin "would mean war-and thermonuclear war at that...
...week. "It is in Germany that the Communists are seen to be losing in fair competition with a free society. Every year, a quarter of a million people leave East Germany, voting with their feet. So, apparently, the peace of the world is going to be endangered because this puppet regime cannot survive unless the Iron Curtain is clamped down still more vigorously...
Joaquin Balaguer, the puppet President whom Ramfis inherited from his father, went so far as to welcome the presence of a U.S. fleet cruising 60 miles off the Dominican coast. "It is just," he said. The U.S. "should be concerned that this vital area not become the theater of hatreds." Added Ramfis, who would very much like to resume diplomatic relations with the U.S., sell more sugar, and see more tourists: "I wish to emphasize that reports that I am anti-American are lies spread by reactionaries...
Increasingly, his raw nerves lay close to the surface. In fits of blind rage, he slapped his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer, kicked palace functionaries in the groin, spat on his assistants. But he still had an instinct for survival. Aware that the main threat of internal revolution lay within the literate middle class, he kept up the pressure of arrest and harassment to prevent organized opposition. He even took on the Roman Catholic Church, which at last went into open opposition...
...united anti-Batista groups in exile under the banner of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Four days after Castro's triumph, Miró was named Premier of Cuba (Castro stayed on as armed-forces chief). Miró soon realized he was nothing but Castro's puppet, resigned after 39 days. He told a friend: "I cannot run my office while another man is trying to run it from behind a microphone...