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Word: puppets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Now He's Going Now He Isn't | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...Choice. What he has been is remarkable in political history. Both of his Negro predecessors in the Senate went to Washington as symbols of Yankee vindictiveness against the South during the Reconstruction era?and both were puppet politicians. The first, an itinerant preacher named Hiram Rhodes Revels, was picked in 1870 by the Mississippi legislature, then dominated by carpetbaggers and Negroes, to fill the Senate seat once occupied by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The other was Blanche Kelso Bruce, an imposing mulatto, who was sent to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senate: An Individual Who Happens To Be a Negro | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Revolt Within a War | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Revolt Within a War | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

PINOCCHIO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Prince Street Players bring that wooden puppet, Pinocchio, back to boy again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Feb. 10, 1967 | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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