Word: puppeteering
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...childrens' lifetimes (parroting a statement made by former Rhodesian leader Ian Smith shortly before Blacks took control). Instead Blacks, who from a majority of the population, will continue to be consigned to non-citizenship status through the homeland system, nominally independent government established tribal states ruled by puppet chiefs...
What should be recognized is that this constitutional move, while polarizing whites, was denounced unilaterally by puppet homeland chiefs and leftist African National Congress members alike. It was a remarkable show of unity from groups that historically have been at odds. The threat of a unified 22 million Blacks in South Africa will inevitably have to be reckoned with and no token reforms can make their persistent threat of resistance vanish...
...GRENADA, yes-and immediately. We agree that the U.S. should not be in the business of constructing puppet governments. But drawing a hard and fast line between use and non-use of military force in this situation is dangerous and puts Americans around the world in jeopardy...
...justify sending in 2000-plus combat troops who stayed in Grenada after the American civilians were evacuated. Clearly, the Administration knew of the Cuban presence on the island and used the protection of Americans as an excuse to engage the Cubans, topple an unfriendly regime, and ultimately install a puppet government. Such tactics are usually associated with the Soviet Union-for example, in connection with the invasion of Afghanistan. And at least the Soviets can claim Afghanistan is of essential strategic importance to them. Grenada-as Marxist two weeks ago as it is now-hardly constitutes a danger...
...Angola were easier to get at than places like Poland or Afghanistan, why not concentrate on these places first? The problem, of course, is the inference of Soviet control. If Qaddafi or the Sandinistas or the Angolan leadership or the Syrians really are the equivalent of the Afghan puppet regime or the Polish dictatorship, then how to thwart or evict them becomes are reasonable question. If, however, they are involved with--but not controlled by--the Soviet Union, then confrontation may drive them irreversibly into the Soviet camp. Consider, for example, Fider Castro...