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...Khrushchev: It is unpleasant to be dealing with a government whose leader is first presented as a demigod, then as a featherbrained, lamentable puppet...
These burlesque-house Lenins get their hour in court before a puppet-like tribunal of military robots-and they get their moment before a firing squad No one in the play escapes Ghelderode's derisory censure except Pantagleize, whom he sees as a questing saint, "bound to Parsifal by purity, and to Don Quixote by courage and holy madness. And if he dies, it is because particularly in our time the Innocents must be slaughtered: that has been the law since the time of Jesus...
...glides abruptly to the microphone, blinking his eyes faster and faster to keep up with the lights. Jerking from side to side, he is a ragdoll puppet, a Chaplinesque hero from an old time movie, a haunting Zombie back from the dead...
...mayoral candidate were killed in a shoot-out with bodyguards of the incumbent Nacionalista Party mayor. In downtown Manila, an assassin killed a candidate for governor of one of the outlying provinces. In a nightclub near Manila, a gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into him before being chased away by Laurel's own bodyguard. The threat of violence has become so serious that President Ferdinand Marcos has sent detachments of the federal Constabulary into Manila and Batangas...
Died. Pu Yi, 61, last Emperor of China and from 1932 to 1945 Japan's puppet ruler of Manchuria; of cancer; in Peking. Heir to the 300-year-old Ch'ing dynasty, the "Son of Heaven" was enthroned as Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden...