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During the final few days, Washington tried to capitalize on the growing revulsion, particularly in the Lakefront wards, with the squalid campaign. He took the offensive by publicly confronting baseless rumors that he had been arrested for child molesting. He also aired a powerful television ad that showed a series of violent scenes from America's past: a Ku Klux Klan rally, the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the Kent State shootings. It culminated with pictures of Epton supporters jeering Washington at a church on Palm Sunday. "There are moments in our history of which...
...interview with Roberto Guillén, contains false charges against the Nicaraguan government. My government's open-door policy to visits by international human rights organizations, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International and Pax Christi, is sufficient to counter Guillen's baseless allegations...
...show you some drugs and homosexuals. People really have a taste for morbidity. This kind of thing really brings it out." Some legislators are already worrying about a potential catch-22 effect: if the committee, especially after a hurry-up investigation, decides that the charges are either baseless or wildly exaggerated, will the public believe it or suspect a coverup...
...Even when the institution wins the case- and good institutions win most of the time-it involves an enormous expenditure of effort and large sums of money. There is no way of recovering the cost of these efforts even if it is eventually determined that the complaint is totally baseless...
...regime moved at the same time to bring to heel the 300-member foreign press corps, much of which it has tried to use for propaganda purposes. Some 2,000 Khomeini supporters marched through the streets of Tehran denouncing "Zionist-and imperialist-affiliated journalists" for sending "false and baseless" reports to the West. Following that, the government expelled TIME'S correspondents in Iran, Bruce van Voorst, 47, and Roland Flamini, 45. Abol Ghassam Sadegh, director general for the foreign press in the Ministry of National Guidance, denounced TIME for "one-sided and biased" coverage. Said he: "Since the hostage...