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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Puppet Theater in Nigeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest August 29-September 4 | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...there was no rejoicing in Lagos last week when Babangida announced his retirement from the armed forces and installed a new "interim" government that is plainly intended to serve as his puppet. The transitional government promised to hold another presidential election by the end of next year, but Nigerians dismiss the new businessman-President Ernest Shonekan, one of Babangida's closest cronies, as a front behind whom Babangida will continue to exercise real control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shamed By Their Nation | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...restrained. The two entities are ideologically, budgetarily, administratively, functionally and physically different. The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is for all the visual arts and it often does serve (through the exhibition of student work) the academic department it houses. The center, however, should never be the puppet of its tenant, as it is now, or be forced by any means to submit to its tenant's self-serving needs. For the center's commitment is farther reaching than the gates of Harvard. That both these entities, the center and the department, have long since passed adolescence and grown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give the Carpenter Center Its Freedom | 7/13/1993 | See Source »

...Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is for all the visual arts and it often does serve (through the exhibition of student work) the academic department it houses," Brandenberg-Horn wrote. "The center, however, should never be the puppet of its tenant, as it is now, or be forced by any means to submit to its tenant's self-serving needs...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: University Reverses Lay-Off of Curator | 7/6/1993 | See Source »

Although they signed on to the U.N.-sponsored peace plan in Paris 19 months ago, the Khmer Rouge refused to demobilize their fighters last June as called for in the accord, contending that the regime in Phnom Penh, installed by Vietnam in 1979, was still Hanoi's puppet. By March the Maoist guerrillas had launched a military campaign intended to destroy the credibility of the promised election. During April and May, Khmer Rouge fighters mounted scores of attacks, killing at least 80 civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pol Pot Power | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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