Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million head of horses, camels, yaks and sheep. Led by the U.S. and Nationalist China, the West has always been able to block the admission of Outer Mongolia to the U.N. on the grounds that it was not an independent nation, but since 1924 a Russian puppet...
...Balaguer was under secretary for the presidency and the little man around the palace to perform odd jobs. He went on from diplomatic missions (to Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico) to Cabinet posts (Education, External Affairs), and finally, in 1957, to Vice President under the benefactor's puppet President, Brother Hector. Last year, when Trujillo sensed growing resistance, he removed Hector and installed Balaguer to stage a "democratization" of the tight little island fief...
...international tensions of recent weeks have provided a world tour by typewriter. As well as writing this week's cover story on U.N. Assembly President Mongi Slim, he wrote the cover stories on south Viet nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem (Aug. 4), East Germany's Puppet Ruler Walter Ulbricht (Aug. 25) and Nikita Khrushchev (Sept...
...dozen new African nations who have proposed an intricate bargain in exchange for their support. They want West Africa's little Mauritania to get membership this session. Cleverly, Moscow enters the picture with a threat to veto Mauritania unless one of its own pets, Outer Mongolia, a puppet republic embedded in Red China, gets in the club at the same time. So the Africans have told the U.S.: Accept both Outer Mongolia and Mauritania as U.N. members, and we will vote with you against Red China-at least this year. The U.S. assented. But Chiang Kai-shek...
...Luzon's rich but rough province of Batangas, the Laurel family hangs onto political power like an heirloom. Three generations of Laurels have served the ruling Nacionalista Party with tooth and claw. Jose Laurel Sr. was a puppet President of the Philippines under the Japanese occupation. His son, Jose Laurel Jr., spent four years as Speaker of the House, baiting the U.S. and sampling nightclubs. He lost his bid for the vice-presidency in 1957 after a tumultuous campaign in which he handed out switchblades as souvenirs. In the same election, Jose Jr.'s son, Jose Laurel...