Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...record since 1945 is vivid enough for all to see who are willing to see it. The U.S., as President Kennedy said in his speech announcing the blockade, has demonstrated that it has "no desire to dominate or conquer any other nation." In contrast, Russia has established puppet regimes by force of arms in Eastern Europe; its attempts to conquer and dominate in Greece, Turkey, Southeast Asia and elsewhere have been thwarted only because U.S. military power, including U.S. bases overseas, has stood in the way. The U.S. bases, such as those in Turkey, have helped keep the peace since...
...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...
...reported some interesting observations by Ben Bella and his aides about their Cuban hosts. They got the feeling that Che Guevara and Armed Forces Commander Raúl Castro were the real "strongmen" of the regime. President Osvaldo Dorticós, long considered a mere Castro puppet, was a surprisingly "strong personality." What about Castro himself? "Still immature, and too nervous...