Word: puppeteered
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...Persian Gulf region. The Administration also hopes to talk a friendly nation, perhaps Egypt or Oman, into supplying a permanent base for R.D.F. units. That will be far from easy and may be politically hazardous. Providing the R.D.F. with a base might brand a friendly government as a U.S. puppet in the eyes of its neighbors?and its own people. President Anwar Sadat, the closest U.S. ally in the Muslim world, has said flatly that he does not want a U.S. base in Egypt, and no other country in the region seems willing to offer one?except Israel, where...
Haig was making major foreign policy statements of his own last week. At a United Nations conference on Cambodia he attended with U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, he attacked the Soviet Union and its "puppet regimes" in Southeast Asia. He also gave a speech designed to reassure NATO allies that the U.S. is seriously committed to resuming talks with the Soviets, before the end of the year, on limiting medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe. Said Haig: "The charge that we are not interested in arms control or that we have cut off communications with the Soviets is simply not true...
...hope the French can make real progress with their new Socialist government. It's about time a country outside the Third World cuts the puppet strings...
...censoriousness in down-home congeniality. "People say I don't like sex," Wildmon joshed to TIME Correspondent Robert Wurmstedt last week. "But look, I got four kids. You don't get four kids by picking blackberries." Wildmon was less amiable when asked whether he was simply a puppet of the Moral Majority. "I'm not a member of Moral Majority," he insisted. "I'm not going to get into personalities or politics. All I'm talking about is television...
...strike-the old push-and-shove of player freedom vs. owner control. But the noises coming through the door sounded rather slow and stupid, like Brer B'ar: "Ah'm gonna knock yo' haid clean off." If the Soviet Union had invaded and installed a puppet government in Washington, one could not imagine a more profoundly un-American summer than the one that suddenly seemed in prospect...