Word: puppeteering
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Enter the Salesman. U Thant returned from Cuba murmuring diplomatically that the talks had been "fruitful." With their strutting puppet causing an impasse, the Russians announced that Anastas Mikoyan, Khrushchev's First Deputy Premier and the U.S.S.R.'s most amiable salesman, would go to Cuba. There was an understandable notion that Mikoyan would lay down the law to Castro, ordering him to get out of the big boys' way. But on his way to Havana, Mikoyan stopped off in New York for chats at the U.N., declared that U.S. news stories about his visit to Cuba were...
...Texas gubernatorial race, Vice President Lyndon Johnson seemed to be the main issue. Republican Jack Cox contended that Democrat John Connally is so close to L.B.J. that Connally would be a "puppet Governor." Connally charged that the Cox campaign is "conceived in hypocrisy, nurtured by hate," and that Cox is a "turncoat," since he once endorsed Johnson for President at a Democratic rally. Cox took this as a dastardly accusation and cried: "John Connally couldn't buy his way into office, now he is trying to blast in with smear tactics...
During a state visit last week, the Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, whom Touré once called a "colonialist puppet." got red-carpet treatment, including an honor guard of paratroopers dressed in improbable raspberry-colored silk uniforms with floral patterns. Before Houphouet-Boigny left for home, a pretty Guinean girl serenaded him with a song in the Malinké dialect that, though it no doubt loses something in translation, told of her yearning...
...greater resistance to enemy guerrillas, who are now losing three weapons for every four they capture; only last year, the ratio was one to two. U.S. advisers are confident that the Viet Cong now have virtually no hope of achieving their goal of setting up a separate, Communist-ruled puppet state in South Viet Nam. After a four-day visit last week, Admiral Harry D. Felt, commander of U.S. Pacific Forces, pronounced: "I find a spirit of optimism in the country...
...what has happened. Sent back to the U.S., the gruesome Raymond proves under posthypnotic suggestion to be a police-proof mechanism of murder. At the climax, he holds in his telescopic sights a U.S. presidential candidate whose death would clear the way to the White House for a Communist puppet...