Word: puppeteer
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Traditional monarchists regard the Prince as a puppet of the Caudillo and prefer Juan Carlos' father, Don Juan, 61, the rightful pretender who is now in Portugal. Some liberals and radicals would rather have no monarchy at all. Only the army is solidly behind the Prince's accession-but it would abandon him if he should show signs of disturbing the status quo. Prince Juan Carlos himself, hovering last week over Franco's sickbed, remained an inscrutable figure...
Just as when Salvadore Allende was deposed and murdered in Chile last fall, the United States knew well in advance that the Greek junta intended to purge Makarios's government and set up its own puppet regime. Since November, when the Greek military ousted President George Papodopoulos, the State Department has received continued warnings of the junta's intentions. This spring, Makarios accused the Greek officers of the Cypriot National Guard of supplying arms and inspiration to a group of Cypriot terrorists fighting for union with Greece. Two weeks ago, he ordered the removal of all Greek officers from Cyprus...
Because of his electoral alliance with the Communists, Mitterrand must continually stress that he is not the party's puppet. It is almost inevitable that he would put some Communists in his Cabinet, but he has denied rumors that he would appoint Communist Party Leader Georges Marchais as Premier. That job, declared Mitterrand, would go to a Socialist. He has hinted that there would even be room in his government for centrists and left-wing Gaullists...
...behind some of the discriminatory treatment he got in Lewisburg, particularly relating to job assignments. When it was pointed out that Ramsey Clark, and not Kennedy, was Attorney General when Hoffa began his prison sentence in 1967, he launched into a diatribe, saying that Clark was just a "puppet" of Kennedy (who was then a Senator from New York). Hoffa cited the Congressional Record, a couple of books and the reporter's common sense to try to bury what had been a small slip, but, importantly, a slip related to Bobby Kennedy: as if catching the mistake was somehow...
...Personally, I think they're misdirected when they protest Ford," Glass said of the planned demonstrations. "I don't think, as they say, that he's Nixon's puppet--he may well get to be president, so he should act as his own man, and he generally...