Word: bowdlerism
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There has been a great deal of controversy in Nicaragua in recent months over whether Washington's mediation efforts led by Ambassador William Bowdler, one-time ambassador to South Africa and former Chief of Intelligence and Research at the State Department, have been in good faith. America's long history of pro-Somoza interventions and aid has led the larger part of the opposition to conclude that the U.S. should not be trusted this time, either. Fearing the Americans seek an equally conservative but less controversial successor for General Somoza--"Somozaism without Somoza"--many opposition splinter groups have recently left...
...telegram, written by William Bowdler, former United States ambassador to South Africa, states that not only workers and students, but also black businessman, want U.S. corporations to withdraw from South Africa...
...Official telegram from William G. Bowdler, U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, March...
...represent a very serious step backward." Other officials suggested that Washington might now be willing to consider diplomatic and economic sanctions against the South African regime. "I think they panicked," said U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. "They are frightened, and they are committing political and social suicide." Ambassador William Bowdler was called back to Washington from Pretoria for "consultations...
...Senate. Thus it is that McCarthyism (a word coined by cartoonist Herblock) has become the dictionary term for ruthless and reckless mudslinging and demagogic suppression of criticism; and he will live on in our lexical language with such other extremists as the Marquis de Sade, William Lynch, Thomas Bowdler, Vidkun Quisling, and Anthony Comstock...