Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitterly anti-Chessman Los Angeles Times thought he might well be. "One atrocious but clever criminal called into question our judicial system and brought discredit to our laws," editorialized the Times. "Then ... he intimidated the Governor of California and drove the timorous U.S. State Department to declare him an international issue. And finally, he beheld the legislature in a session specially called to change the law so that he could be saved from execution . . . What will happen now? They would not change the law for Chessman, but it would be unwise to give odds that he won't beat...
...source of never ending embarrassment to George Meany, who has labored long and well to eliminate segregation in unions. Last week he admitted that the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Civil Rights Committee was stymied by Local 26. To spread the blame for the shame, Democrat Meany then elected to discredit the President's Committee, through whose good works Vice President Nixon has been rolling up quite a bit of popular support among Negro voters...
...tiny neo-Nazi German Reich Party, admitted desecrating the Cologne synagogue. "All decent Germans join me in condemning this atrocious act," Chancel lor Adenauer wired Cologne Rabbi Zw Asaria. A week later, without offering up any proof, the government said it was a "planned action designed to discredit the Federal Republic in the eyes of the world" and hinted that not cranks or crackpots but Communists were responsible...
This is no discredit to the pioneering Christian mission schools, which have trained virtually every native leader and are today responsible for perhaps 85% of elementary education in non-Moslem black Africa. But such schools are still too few, and the colonial powers have done little to supplement them. The Belgians, for example, only recently started a secondary school system. Britain's Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland has only three secondary schools funneling Africans into the multiracial University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Though 180.000 African children attend the federation's primary schools, the secondary schools have admitted...