Word: puppetized
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...many feared that the young King, who has said about his family that "we always used to work as a team," would be under the sway of the Queen Mother. But young Constantine soon showed that he had considerable toughness. He decided that his job was not for a puppet or a figurehead, and that he would have to reign as his family had before him?within the constitutional rights of the monarchy but with the strength and determination of a modern king. In fact, the Greek King has considerably more constitutional powers than most kings. He is the supreme...
...everything is rosy in the revolutionary world," Castro stormed in a three-hour harangue at Havana University. "Whoever helps the oligarchies where our guerrillas are fighting is helping suppress the revolution. What would the revolutionary Vietnamese think if we sent delegations to South Viet Nam to trade with the puppet government of Saigon...
...that once were the Dutch East Indies sullenly transferred his administrative powers to Army General Suharto, 49, the anti-Communist leader of the "New Order" force of generals that has brought Indonesia back into the real world. Yet Sukarno, like most Indonesians, is a master of the intricate, interminable puppet play called wayang, which can go on for hours without reaching a climax. Last week it was wayang...
...with the help of Nasser's 47,000-man occupation army. Pro-republican tribesmen, who were originally glad of Nasser's help, have been angered by the arrogance and oppression of the Egyptians, are now in open revolt against Nasser's brutal puppet, Abdullah Sallal, who recently executed 15 of his former comrades in arms and jailed hundreds of others...
...Feisal canceled the licenses of two Egyptian banks in Saudi Arabia-the Bank of Cairo and the Misr Bank-and Nasser retaliated by confiscating all of Feisal's Egyptian property, which is valued at about $47 million. In a setback for Nasser, Tunisia broke diplomatic relations with his puppet republican regime in Yemen, saying that the Sallal government no longer has power to govern the country...