Word: puppeteered
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...thwarting of Goodbye Massoud was the most recent, and perhaps the most daring, success of the CIA's operation to assist the embattled guerrillas. Like most of the world, the U.S. was outraged when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and proceeded to transform it into a puppet state. That shock, together with widespread sympathy for the mujahedin, has not abated as Moscow has tried to consolidate its tenuous control over the nation by resorting to carpet bombing, chemical warfare and outright massacre of civilians...
That Juan Carlos is seen now as the architect of Spain's transition and has achieved such international recognition is mildly amazing, considering his enigmatic presence at the time of Franco's death. Opponents called him a puppet, a tin soldier. They chided him for walking well behind the 5 ft.-3 in, general so as not to embarrass him with his courtly 6 ft.-2 in. frame. He was once called "the son Franco never had." Wags named him "Juan the Brief" because his public statements were short and infrequent...
...Central Election Commission. ARENA'S official scrutineer was finally ejected by the election commission for repeatedly interrupting the vote-counting process. D'Aubuisson also claimed, without offering proof, that the U.S. had "fixed" the election, and declared that "we are not going to validate this puppet, Mr. Duarte, who they say has been bought by the CIA so it can maintain its interests." At week's end ARENA declared that it would refuse to recognize the election results. Meanwhile, the possibility of CIA involvement in Duarte's election campaign was also being discussed...
...glancing knowledge of the complex issues involved in the documentary, and was reading from cue cards questions written by Crile when he conducted the hard-hitting interview with General Westmoreland that is seen in the broadcast. CBS's most fearsome interrogator, Kowet claims, was little more than "a puppet propped on George Crile's knee." Kowet's conclusion: "CBS had got the story wrong...
Spider-Man, TV's Lindsay Wagner, a duck puppet and a character known as Hands-Off Bill are all recent conscripts in the campaign to prevent the sexual abuse of children. Their basic message: some kinds of touching are wrong, and the child always has the right...