Word: besmirching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the past year, Bulgaria's President Todor Zhivkov has been trying to improve relations with the West. Bulgaria claims that Markov and Simeonov were liquidated by Western intelligence services seeking to besmirch the country's image. To lend credence to that pitch, the regime offered to help British authorities dealing with the case. It was an offer the British just might be able to refuse...
...without pretense that the 1967 setback was an exception in our history. I came out of the ranks of these forces and have lived their traditions. [Their] record was magnificent, but our enemies-old and new imperialism and world Zionism-tried to [besmirch] this record so as to make the nation doubt its shield and its sword...