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...that the action of 64 per cent of the eligible voters of Rhodesia (who went to the polls to choose a black-majority government) supports continued white domination on Rhodesia is wrong. The election of Bishop Abel Muzorewa--who is no puppet--if anything indicates a decline in that domination. Rhodesia, as Mr. Koblitz says, is a country torn by war, but it appears that the recent elections bear the possibility for something missing for six years since the conflict began: peace. In an international view, the problem has been how to achieve a form of majority rule whose legitimacy...
...Chinese invasion fits into a consistent pattern of hardline U.S. opposition--diplomatic and otherwise--to Vietnam ever since the NLF/DRV army drove out the Thieu puppet government in Saigon...
...year is 1941. Winston Churchill has been executed. The King, rescued from the ruins of Buckingham Palace, is imprisoned in the Tower of London. The Queen and their two daughters are in exile in Australia. Thousands of Britons have been deported to work in German factories. A puppet government is ensconced in Westminster, but the Nazis jackboot the country as roughly as they ran occupied France. In Britain, too, there is a tough Resistance movement, as well as profiteers who will provide any quo for a quid...
...China motivated primarily by moral considerations. Pol Pot's reported massacre of his potential opponents was probably of less concern to Hanoi than the inconvenience of having a Chinese supported government on its border. The Vietnamese puppet regime is no more motivated by humanitarian concerns that was Pol Pot's government...
Under Chief of Police John Rhoades, a Kelly appointee, the department instituted a mandatory, 20-hour human relations course for all members, and integrated classes of police recruits. Many policemen condemned Rhoades for being, as one officer put it, "Kelly's puppet" and "too responsive to the community at the expense of the department's needs...