Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...displaced person nearly his entire life, manipulated by palace eunuchs, by the Japanese (while he is the puppet emperor of Manchuria) and finally by the Communists--Pu Yi never gets a fair chance at the throne. His life represents 60 years of Chinese political subjugation. An anti-hero at best, Lone's Pu Yi wins over the audience's sympathies. Every time there is even a glimmer of hope in his life a door literally shuts...
...Most Haitians think new elections would do little more than install a pro- military puppet regime. Namphy has pledged a fair contest, but many people are bitterly skeptical. "To the sons of the Duvalierists, words are like bullets: they are both used indiscriminately," says a former army officer who, like most Haitians, is fearful of reprisals if his name is seen in print. While Washington has called on Namphy to provide a "free, fair and secure electoral process," a U.S. official concedes, "We frankly don't maintain much hope that they will do the right thing." In Haiti, a consensus...
...Army is incurring casualties in Afghanistan as high as those we did in Vietnam, while Nicaragua has become an enormous military and economic drain on the rickety Soviet economy. Gorbachev wants out in both places, and he needs American help to ensure that rebels will not topple his puppet governments when he leaves. By agreeing to stop funding the contras and mujahadeen in exchange for vague promises of more arms agreements, the Unites States would give legitimacy to the Marxist regimes in both countries that have killed thousands or even millions of their own citizens...
...spared Gorbachev from tough criticism. He said Gorbachev "inherited" the stationing of 115,000 Sovie troops in Afghanistan and might not know that the government there was a puppet regime installed by his predecessors...
...said the remaining "puppet government" would still have military forces, leaving the resistance fighters "prey" to the army...