Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long last the King had become "reconciled" to Abd el Krim, the fanatically anti-French Moroccan rebel of the 1921-26 Rif wars, who until now has preferred to live in exile in Egypt rather than to bow to a King he insisted was nothing more than a French puppet. Abd el Krim, now a withered 76, will henceforth receive a pension from the Moroccan government for his past "inestimable services...
Czechoslovakia and Rumania sit at the summit table as equals of independent Western governments. ¶ Accept the legitimacy of the East German puppet regime...
...Indonesians love peace as well. In the soft scented night each village resounds with the rhythmic, curiously tuneful gamelan music of bowl-shaped gongs, bamboo flutes, metal keys, two-stringed violins. Fluid-fingered dancers will hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything...
Most of all, Sukarno wants to be loved and admired. He is happy when surrounded by schoolchildren; it delights him to keep statesmen waiting while he listens patiently to a ragged old woman's complaint. He likes the traditional things of his national life, from Indonesian painting to puppet shows to dukuns (soothsayers). His favorite dukun, a ripe female named Madame Suprapto, last week offered him a particularly explicit prophecy: "The first big bomb will fall in Indonesia in March. The United States will intervene in the struggle between Padang and Djakarta, then the Soviet Union will intervene...
...judge issued his injunction last October on complaint of 13 New York Teamsters who charged that Hoffa finagled the president's chair for himself by packing the Teamster convention with puppet delegates, hand-picked in violation of the union's constitution. Under the arrangement that Hoffa's lawyers worked out with the 13 rebels, these charges remain hanging. In a settlement without precedent in labor cases, Judge Letts, 82, kept jurisdiction over the case, ordered a three-man "board of monitors" set up to look over Jimmy's shoulder and report to the court on what...