Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hawks may dream of annexing the West Bank, but that has never been official policy. To the contrary, Jerusalem has often promised to permit some form of self-rule for the Palestinians, though it has dragged its heels unconscionably on doing so. Iraq initially proposed to set up a puppet state in Kuwait, but swiftly abandoned even that pretense. Baghdad now proclaims the emirate to be a province of Iraq and is trying, by such means as destruction of records, to obliterate any trace that there ever was a nation named Kuwait...
...have been accused by Arab critics of being an American puppet. Now that you have deployed troops to Saudi Arabia and you are assisting in the American military buildup, how do you respond to that...
...never respond to it. We are not puppets. We have our own interests, and we are not controlled by any country. We have good relations with America, with the Soviet Union, with Europe, with the Eastern bloc, with the African continent, even with the Arab world. Egypt is Egypt. Egypt will never be a puppet for anybody, and those who are saying this know it perfectly well...
...UNIRAC was only a glancing blow. By 1985 even Gigante's own son Andrew was a union vice president on the docks. Thomas Gleason, president of the I.L.A. until 1987, is reputed to have been a virtual Genovese puppet. Today, at 89, he is paid $100,000 a year as president emeritus and serves on the union's executive council. His successor, John Bowers, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in several recent prosecutions for taking payoffs and even soliciting a murder. In February, a decade after UNIRAC, the U.S. filed a civil racketeering suit that seeks to have...
...Arab gulf leaders, Fahd is now most vulnerable to charges he is a Western puppet. Shi'ite Muslims have been disputing Saudi custodianship of the holy sites of Mecca and Medina as illegitimate. The presence of foreign forces risks sowing the seeds of long-term agitation to unseat the house of Saud, though the presence of a pan-Arab force will take much of the onus off Fahd...