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Part of the reason for this conviction is that the ACSR was roundly lambasted by several of the speakers for being a puppet of the Harvard Corporation. These student and alumni spokesmen asserted that the ACSR serves as a lighting rod to deflect criticism and protest from the real policy makers, the seven members of the Harvard Corporation, whom the ACSR is supposed to advise. These speakers contended further that the Corporation then proceeds to ignore practical: all of the ACSR's counsel regarding South Africa policy. One student went so far as to say that when examined in historical...
...Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea until Viet Nam's 1978 invasion and the installation of a puppet regime in Phnom Penh, the capital...
...chamber for the explicit purpose of arousing public sentiment against capital punishment. NBC's Kennedy depicted the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a scheming bureaucratic thug, and the same network's King, also by Abby Mann, suggested that the black civil rights leader was virtually a puppet of white liberals. At minimum, docudramas inevitably distort history by being selective. Ike, which focused on a purported World War II romance between President Dwight Eisenhower and his aide Kay Summersby, exaggerated the importance of individuals with whom Eisenhower worked directly, and sharply undervalued the impact of his offstage superiors, like...
...Kennedy "a pair of boots," explaining: "You can't say which is better, the left or the right." In private he had a different attitude. At a luncheon before his departure, he became angry at the mention of Nixon's name: "He's a typical product of McCarthyism, a puppet of the most reactionary circles in the U.S. We'll never be able to find a common language with him." He said that "we can influence the American presidential election." He related how he saw through the Americans when the Eisenhower Administration asked us to release U-2 Pilot Powers...