Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brain trust, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, last week lectured 5,000 Red Chinese in Peking on how the Marxist blessings of Castro Cuba can be carried to country after country throughout the rest of Latin America. "It is," he said coldly, "through arming the people and smashing the puppet dictatorial regimes." In Washington a high U.S. official dealing with Latin America took a look at the endless crises besetting the hemisphere's governments and likened the situation to a "mountain of sugar melting under a fire hose...
Truncated Puppet. Frenchmen peered hopefully through the glorious opacity of De Gaulle's prose to see whether his rocket promised to go into orbit-or to fizzle. So far, the signs were not encouraging...
...Tunis a rebel spokesman said flatly: "We will have nothing to do with a truncated puppet state. We have made this point of view abundantly clear." In Algiers, Europeans crowding bars and cafes spoke freely of mass insurrection should De Gaulle seriously try to set up a Moslem Deputy Commissioner. Rumors spread that the police, in the event of an uprising, would throw a cordon around the city and starve it into submission. Sneered an ultra leader: "De Gaulle wants to turn Algiers into a second Budapest...
...from right, left and center. On radio, television and in Montmartre cellars, the traditional chansonniers gibe irreverently at De Gaulle's big-power pretensions and the docility of his Cabinet. A favorite target is Premier Michel Debré, who is depicted, not altogether incorrectly, as a puppet and errand boy. One chansonnier lyric has De Gaulle asking Debré the time. Debré's fawning answer: "Any time you like...
Died. Claro Recto, 70, Philippine Senator and violently outspoken nationalist; of a heart attack; in Rome, while on a world tour. Lawyer Recto presided over the framing of the Philippine constitution in 1934-35, served as Foreign Minister in the puppet government set up by the Japanese in World War II, returned to the Senate at war's end. An early supporter of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, Recto soon turned bitterly against him, claimed that Magsaysay had welshed on a promise to serve only one term. Recto avidly sought the presidency for himself but never could...