Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retributions were equally predictable. The A.N.C. blamed the government of President F.W. de Klerk, which props up the puppet Ciskei regime and trains its army. The incident, said A.N.C. President Nelson Mandela, will add to De Klerk's "roll call of infamy." The South African President said he had warned Mandela of the possibility of violence in the A.N.C.'s mass-action campaign against Ciskei and announced that there could no longer be any political negotiations with the A.N.C. until the question of the "vortex of violence" had been dealt with...
...democrats' defense hinges on the claim that the Communist Party was never just a political party but a totalitarian state structure ruled by an elite who pulled the strings of a puppet parliament, government and judicial system. The case will be based on a trail of paper evidence linking the party leadership to almost every decision of importance -- or unimportance -- made in the Soviet Union. Says presidential lawyer Sergei Shakhrai: "We will show how the Politburo passed laws, not the parliament; how it rendered judicial verdicts, not the Supreme Court; how it managed the economy and launched space flights...
...stirs up Serbs with talk of imminent genocide, then sets his proxies loose to "protect" them, with fatal consequences for Croats and Muslims. Yet he insists that his aim is not the creation of a Greater Serbia, only the preservation of Yugoslavia. "We don't want to be a puppet regime of any foreign force -- unlike some others in Yugoslavia," he says, referring to Croatia's close ties with Germany. "Our people want to be independent and free, nothing else...
Then that kids' show came along and sent me reeling. If you, O section comrades, were up early enough to catch the show--a wood puppet family with a son, Davey, and his faithful canine companion, Goliath--you'd understand the simple brilliance of it. The adventures! The familial love! The clear morality! The churches! The utter pureness of Davey's heart...
...prevent or stop massacres, the U.S. might be forced into an indefinite occupation and installation of a kind of puppet government in Baghdad (shades of Vietnam!). Absent some gross new provocation from Saddam, much of the Arab world would regard this as a neo-colonial occupation; the outbreaks of anti- Western fury that were predicted but failed to occur during the gulf war might really happen this time. At minimum, the U.S. would lose the leverage that has enabled it to get Arab-Israeli peace talks started...