Word: puppeteered
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...Drepung and Sera to engage in religious disputation with their learned abbots. This was a critical moment, for upon his intelligence and agility of mind would depend the future balance of power. He would not be deposed should he fail the examination, but he could be turned into a puppet-a Living Buddha who was easily manipulated by shrewd and able monks...
...more likely to become Red China's Algeria, a festering war to the knife that can be neither won nor lost. The Communist garrisons should be able to hold the cities and the main roads. They can even find a handful of Tibetan collaborators, like their tame puppet, the tenth Panchen Lama, a wan young man of 22 who is unable to control the monks of his own lamaseries. But the Red troops, estimated at 60,000-80,000, must be supplied from a base 70 miles distant, over a single, hazardous road that can be easily...
...Reds' proposals for communizing Tibet probably will be announced at the Chinese people's congress Friday. But the Panchen Lama, the Communists' puppet ruler, apparently gave his approval in advance...
...Russia grabbed so nakedly for power by puppet in the Middle East's Iraq (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the Arab world was brought up short...
...yellow limousines and a telephone (number: Lhasa 1), which could be connected with Peking. They filled his household with Communists, in 1954 "invited" him to Peking for some special tutoring, little by little passed on more and more of his duties to the Panchen Lama, their 21-year-old puppet...