Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neff s assessment of Menachem Begin's first year in office as Israeli Prime Minister [July 3] shows only that the former freedom fighter and first cit izen of Israel can't be controlled by his so-called allies. Begin has never been any man's puppet. His dream of an Eretz Yisrael is his life, and on the vital issue of peace and security for his people, there will be no dictation of policy from non-Israeli sources...
...kept Italy on a cruel seesaw of suspense since Moro's abduction on March 16. They had spurned pleas for mercy from the Vatican, from the Pope himself ("I beg you on my knees") and from the United Nations as they dangled their victim like a political puppet. The end came when they executed Moro with eleven shots fired from a Czech-made Skorpion 7.65-mm pistol and a still unidentified 9.-cal. handgun. Eight shots were centered around his heart. The hatchback Renault in which the body had been placed was left on a narrow, one-block street...
Borowitz claimed yesterday that the cancellation of the show was "a case of gross mismanagement." He added. "The board mistakenly thought they could alienate people that were vital to the production. They didn't want a director that was anything more than a puppet to the Society...
...only rarely employed assassination, and then only against ranking agents of the puppet regime or members of its feared secret police. In large measure, support for the NLF in areas it controlled emerged because it carried out an extensive and democratic program of land reform...
...When the NLF and the North Vietnamese, tired of Thieu's continued attacks on areas they held, started a spring offensive, puppet resistance collapsed, due to the dwindling American aid and NLF uprisings behind ARVN lines. The end of the war came swiftly, in 55 days...