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...Puppet Show. In the later years of the 19th century, the Third Republic could rarely be described as a working democracy. Haunted by France's humiliating defeat in the war of 1870 enraged clericals and anticlericals, lurking royalists and Bonapartists, wild radicals and Republicans turned the parliamentary process into a dismal puppet show. Chosen Minister of War in 1886, Boulanger swiftly, humanely and intelligently democratized, reorganized and re-equipped France's demoralized army. Like Dwight David Eisenhower in 1952, he became, almost overnight and with little effort on his part, the center of a whirlwind political force. "Boulangism...
...that simple, of course. In addition to U.S. withdrawal, the Communists reiterated some familiar and, to the Administration, unacceptable demands: that the U.S. cut off all aid to Viet Nam and abandon the "puppet" government in Saigon in favor of a coalition that would include the Communists. In effect, the Communists were saying: If you really want your prisoners so badly, take them, and give us South Viet Nam in exchange...
Center of Culture. Beyond the architectural controversy, there was another facet to the debate. When the fishmongers and vegetable sellers moved out of Les Halles, artists and entrepreneurs moved in, offering everything from avant-garde theater and Marxist book shows to pop concerts, films, art exhibits, puppet shows and flea markets. The fish pavilion has become, of all things, a roller rink. In all, 2,000,000 people have visited the transformed market...
...President Ngo Dinh Diem to ask for U.S. ground troops. Two months before, Kennedy had authorized secret raids against North Viet Nam. Diem resisted American pressure at first, arguing that the presence of American troops would violate the 1954 Geneva Agreements and open his administration to criticism as a puppet government. But in October. Diem made the solicited request, and Kennedy began a quiet, slow buildup of U.S. advisers...
...aftermath showed dramatically the state of Harvard's movement. Radicals had felt deeply the galling fact that they had done nothing of note all year to stop the carnage in Indochina; most felt that the movement was dead, and that its enemies-a White House aide and puppet officials of the South Vietnams and Thai governments-were coming to town to dance on its grave before the eyes of the world and the cameras of USIA...