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Although Castelo Branco barred him self from re-election, Jaguaribe felt it was a very small consolation for the "phoney elections" he was setting up in Brazil's Congress. Congress was now a puppet, as the president could adjourn it or remove members at will...
...General Robert Nimmo has neither the authority nor the men to prevent outbreaks and is barely tolerated by both sides. The U.N. has four times ordered a plebiscite in Kashmir in order to determine the wishes of its inhabitants. India has always refused and, in 1957, a handpicked, Kashmiri puppet legislature declared the state an "integral" part of India. Kashmir's Sheik Abdullah, who belatedly objected to Indian domination and also called for a plebiscite, has spent most of his time in an Indian jail...
However, Schrecker felt that U.S. policy is pushing the North Vietnamese closer to the Chinese and that unless U.S. involvement in South Vietnam is ended soon, North Vietnam will become a puppet of the Chinese...
...Puppet Parliament. Johnson is working with the largest congressional Democratic majority since 1937. Yet it is not a puppet parliament-at least in the sense that the Administration sometimes has to scramble for enough votes for key programs. The President himself is almost always in the forefront of the persuaders. He is intimately aware of the progress of each bill, is posted on how each committee stands. Frequently, after a White House ceremony, he will gently guide a Congressman out of the crowd, whisper in his ear: "Now I want you to get interested in this . . ." It is astounding...
...rooftops, many waving his portrait wreathed in laurels and suggesting to the fallen hero that "a new irreconcilable struggle" had begun in Greece. "Who rules this country today? The King or the people?" he asked. Enthusiastically, the crowd responded, "We want a plebiscite. Unity! Papandreou! Down with the puppet government...