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Word: puppets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON has pointed to President Kennedy's "opportunity to prove Fidel Castro a puppet." For over a month now our government's clear statements that missile bases of an offensive nature would not be tolerated have been clearly audible in Havans. The opportunity for proof of good intentions is over. That is why President Kennedy has called the latest American move "a difficult and dangerous effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE ON CUBA | 10/25/1962 | See Source »

...when reports came in that Castro was surrounded by Communist advisors. We have waited for certainty when arms began to come to Cuba in September of last year. The CRIMSON is indeed correct in saying that it is still possible to doubt the certainty that Castro is a Russian puppet. Yet the tragedy of any policy-making decision is that it must be made before all the facts are in; if it is not, it becomes not a policy decision but a retrospective analysis of events that have already become history. The most-difficult and dangerous art of policy making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE ON CUBA | 10/25/1962 | See Source »

Whether Castro is a Soviet puppet or not is no longer the issue. It would certainly be dangerous to delay action in the Caribbean in the hope of proving once and for all that Cuba is subservient to Moscow, if that delay might give the Russians the impression that we don't really mean what we say. Offering "rapprochement" in the form of a diplomatic ultimatum would not only seem hypocritical to both Cuba and the Soviet Union, but could also involve them in a serious miscalculation of American willingness to honor stated commitments...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: Cuba | 10/24/1962 | See Source »

When the President of the United States has an opportunity to prove Fidel Castro a puppet, he needn't merely imitate the cartoonists by calling him one. There seems to be no reason why the President couldn't have announced an intended blockade, conditional on Cuban refusal to come to terms, a la his nuclear testing proviso last March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Cuba | 10/23/1962 | See Source »

Died. Sidi Mohammed al-Amin, 81, last of the 19 Beys of Tunis, a spade-bearded figurehead given to gilt-encrusted uniforms and tinkering with his 2,000 grandfather clocks, who sat as France's puppet king from 1943 until 1957 when the new Tunisian republic ousted him-and his seven dwarf jesters-from his palace, thus ending a 252-year dynasty originally set up by the Turkish masters of the Ottoman Empire in 1705; of a heart attack; in Tunis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 12, 1962 | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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