Word: puppeteered
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...makes me look like a puppet,"' Sullivan quoted the shah--"an indecisive and sort of diffident man"--as saying...
...familiar rhetoric of revolution, came the declaration that many in the U.S. had been waiting and hoping for: the militants would turn the hostages over to the Iranian government. The students said they wanted to march off to the battlefront and help defend Iran against "America's puppet," Iraq. Said the militants' spokesman: "If the great leader of the revolution grants us permission, we will from now on delegate the responsibility for the safeguarding [of the hostages] to the government and will engage in the most important current issue of the revolution, defense of the Islamic homeland...
...Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, Afghanistan's President Babrak Karmal was given effusive greetings by a phalanx of Soviet officials led by Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The Afghan leader was on his first venture outside the Soviet-occupied country since he was installed as Moscow's puppet last December. The sheer number of senior Soviet Politburo members participating in the Moscow welcome demonstrated the Kremlin's obvious desire to shore up Karmal's legitimacy and make a show of his supposed influence with the Kremlin. Mused a Western diplomat who observed the arrival: "There were...
...entered the parliament building in downtown Tehran, Iraqi Soviet-built MiG-23 fighters roared overhead. "What is it we hear?" asked Vinogradov. "Your own MiGs," retorted Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani then told Vinogradov that Soviet friendship overtures would get nowhere so long as Moscow supported Baghdad and the puppet regime in Afghanistan. TIME has learned that the Iranians believe Moscow knew of the Iraqi attack beforehand, and did not inform Tehran because it saw an opportunity to widen its influence. Said a senior Iranian official: "The Kremlin thought it could easily fill up what it perceived to be a vacuum left...
...sake of money." In the U.S.S.R., on the other hand, "the Bolsheviks are reshaping human nature, directing man toward a better future." Metamorphosed into a true Soviet patriot and Communist, the fictional Pasternak has little trouble turning down the Nobel Prize: "What if I really am just a puppet in the hands of the imperialists?" In any case, he concludes, the prize was "not worth having...