Word: puppeteered
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...absent. Unlike the African National Congress leader, he sees no roadblocks to immediate talks. Many whites and conservative blacks, not to mention Western leaders such as George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, admire Buthelezi's readiness to compromise and his embrace of capitalism. Antiapartheid militants, however, dismiss him as a puppet who has long collaborated with the white minority government against the interests of the poor and disenfranchised black majority...
...gain their freedom. The centrist Popular Front movement advocates working through the republic's supreme soviet to advance the cause of independence. The National Forum, a coalition of seven * political parties and national movements set up last month, rejects any form of cooperation with what it calls the Soviet "puppet" government. The group wants to hold alternative elections for a new national congress...
...families who live near the company's corporate headquarters; the others are related to employees who contribute on a sliding, income-based scale to the annual $7,000 cost. Hiatt recruited faculty members from Boston's Wheelock College to develop a curriculum of shared activities such as storytelling and puppet plays...
...since when is a movie hunk supposed to have a sharp mind and a strong will? "Most directors rent actors," Baldwin says in his intimate, raspy voice. "You're like a puppet. They put their hand up your sleeve, and you do what they want." As a star he will get to do what he wants -- which is perhaps to be other than a star. He holds strong political opinions and is not afraid to promote them. He is a member of the Creative Coalition, an environmental group. "He could be a politician or run a movie studio," says...
...their loyalty to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He claims an equal right to participate in any negotiations, and has kept close ties to Mandela personally. But Buthelezi's Inkatha movement is suspect to many blacks for its history of cooperation with the government. The A.N.C. despises Buthelezi as a white puppet, and violent rivalry between the two organizations over the past two years has left more than 1,200 blacks dead. Also at odds with the nonracial A.N.C. is the much smaller Pan Africanist Congress, whose slogan is Africa for the Africans. But its main disagreement is over tactics: the P.A.C...