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Haig said that the U.S. would oppose the creation of any Lebanese nation that would be a puppet of Israel. The Secretary of State also said that the Administration would not tolerate any deal that allowed the Christian Phalangist militia, acting as Jerusalem's proxies, to destroy the P.L.O. in Beirut. That, Haig said, would make unification of Lebanon impossible. As the talk went on, Haig got the feeling that Israel would accept any Lebanese government that Habib could patch together, as long as it was stable, friendly to Israel and determined to prevent the return of the P.L.O...
...heart of the matter lies the Administration's contention denied by Nicaragua--that the leftist government there is Moscow's puppet and supplies arms to guerrillas fighting the U.S. backed Duarte regime in El. Salvador Reagan is also concerned by the substantial Nicaraguan arms buildup and with reported human rights violations against the rightist opposition and the Miskito Indians. Yet Washington has failed to substantiate its accusations. Nor has the State Department made any attempt to view the world through Nicaraguan eyes. Seen from Managua, the present danger is hardly the same one perceived by our foreign policy leaders...
...from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron's plane wing; a "Mr. Bones" skeleton puppet used in a vaudeville show; Jimmy Carter's hymn book from Plains, Ga.; and a tie box full of old gallstones...
...order of things, and a new way, as yet unformed. You can give a lot of examples of the old order. There's imperialism, either the old-fashioned Trade Follows the Flag sort, or the post World War II brand which held that anyone asking for liberty was a puppet of either the CIA or the Kremlin. or the new IMF. "Make the world safe for Alcoa!" sort. There's racism-from slavery to Jim Crow to Bob Jones University, a racism so strong that in this country, even in the wake of the 60's. Black men make less...
...vast following (he regularly received 80,000 letters a week). To overthrow Roosevelt, whom Coughlin denounced as "anti-God," the priest joined forces with Dr. Townsend, the pension crusader, and one of Long's nastier henchmen, the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith, to launch the Union party. Their puppet nominee for the presidency: Populist Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota...