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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save Cyprus | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Trying to Exorcise a Specter | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Walter N. Rothschild iii, | Title: Jimmy Hoffa | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Republicans, Protesters Prepare to Welcome Ford | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

Nevertheless, wide circles of the Eastern "Liberal" Establishment ignored the stories of those refugees in spite of the fact that the outrageous crimes against humanity committed by the Russian Communists in once independent Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and in the Russian puppet states in Eastern Europe were well-documented by the resolutions passed by the U.S. Congress. When those Americans of the Eastern European descent appealed to the conscience of the free world, they were met with a conspiracy of silence. In many cases those anti-Communists were greeted by the self-styled liberal circles with open hostility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

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