Word: puppeteered
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...least understandable, if reason ever skipped alongside insanity. If he deplored his marriage, his wife might comprehend why he disappears from home for days on end. If he hated his job, it might be clear why he often masquerades as someone else--a doctor, a short-order cook, a puppet collector. But Morgan has no reasons. Even when he leaves his wife for his lover Emily, he doesn't do so because he loves Emily more or because he is tired of Bonnie. The spirit moves him, and he leaves...
Kabul is waiting for something to happen-riots, guerrilla action, a tightening of curfew, the replacement of Moscow's puppet party boss Babrak Karmal, army or police mutiny, perhaps an even more overt Soviet takeover. However ill founded, however paranoid, the constant rumors have a reality of their own in shaping the war psychosis of the occupied city. The men seen in the streets with guns, the façade of power, are Afghans. The real occupiers, the Soviets, are invisible, except for their helicopters, the jet contrails, the daily barrage of Pravda-phrased media propaganda, the Cyrillic script...
...since there is no sign of the emergence of a Vietnamese-style liberation front among Afghanistan's disparate and so far uncoordinated rebels. But the letters have far more credibility than the government and its enormous press, radio and TV propaganda machine. Indeed, Karmal is seen as a puppet and a traitor. He is commonly referred to as a saq (dog)-an unclean animal to Muslims...
...described his action as a "stab in the back" to all of its readers. Reporting Carter's reversal, Saudi Arabia's state-controlled radio said acidly: "May God have mercy on his soul." The Kuwait daily Al-Anba called the President "a coward and a puppet in the hands of Israel." "Instant amateurism," snapped a British diplomat. A German colleague described the "incredible flip-flopping" as "intolerable...
...forces, the Soviets inherited a demoralized, poorly trained, desertion-prone Afghan army that has no stomach or heart for fighting the Muslim insurgent Helicopter gunships blaze away at elusive guerrillas. The army of a superpower tries to shore up an allied regime against an insurgency, but the puppet government and its military forces only grow weaker. The rebellion spreads. What was intended as a swift surgical operation begins to resemble a futile, possibly humiliating war without...