Word: puppeteer
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While the generals and their puppet President were in the palace, South America's second biggest nation saw its wheat-and-beef economy riddled by inflation, unemployment and a towering national debt, its daily life punctuated by nasty little fights between warring military factions. Nevertheless Argentina managed to grope its way back to a constitutional government that took office with new hope. Mature and stable, Illia is a small-town doctor whose middle-roading People's Radicals grew out of a split with Frondizi's Radicals in 1957. His cabinet is notable for a lack...
...debate of the issue included Algeria, whose frankly dictatorial government is fighting to put down an insurrection, effectively controls the press, and last week expelled one U.S. and four French newsmen; Indonesia, whose ruler "for life," President Sukarno, runs a nasty little jungle tyranny; and Outer Mongolia, a Communist puppet...
...attempt to establish constitutional government and non-Soviet socialist democracy in Latin America can only begin there. As long as the military has the de facto veto power over reform programs that it exercised this month in the Dominican Republic, democracy in Latin America will be simply an army puppet-show. Real democracy must bring what most of the people in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the hemisphere now see as their right--thorough, far-reaching social reform...
Backstage on Broadway went Margaret Truman Daniel, 39, renewing acquaintance with a puppet regime that strikes her as a million laughs. The occasion was opening night of Sergei Obratsov's Russian Puppet Theater, a miniature spectacular that had the critics banning real live actors to some theatrical Siberia. Among the characters applauded was one splintery soprano, and Margaret loved that too. "A marvelous show," she trilled. "I first saw them in Moscow...
Sukarno could, of course, enlist Chinese military support, and this is the greatest danger in the situation. But Chinese support would come with many strings attached. Sukarno wants to see the whole Malay Archipelago his domain. He hardly wants to become a puppet in his own land...