Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate from 3.3% to 2.5%, self-sufficiency in food will be achieved this year. Vastly increased grain harvests have been gathered in the Philippines, Ceylon, Turkey and Mexico. In South Vietnam, the IR8 rice strain (TIME, June 14) has been so successful that the Viet Cong have sought to discredit it by telling peasants that it causes cancer and leprosy. Indeed, most developing countries-but not including China, because of its self-imposed, xenophobic political isolationism-are benefiting, or about to benefit, from the new crops and new techniques. By themselves, the new farming methods are, of course...
Measure of Autonomy. Since he is largely doing their bidding, the Soviets do not at present want to discredit Dubček entirely. Ironically, they allowed him last week to put into effect one of his original reforms. It has nothing to do with his innovations in press and political freedom, which have been quashed. The new measure establishes a federal system of government in Czechoslovakia, granting a large degree of autonomy to the country's two main ethnic groups, the Czechs and the Slovaks...
...worst conditions resulted when faculty members joined forces with radical student groups. Nationwide, only 20 incidents of all types were reported at the 262 Army ROTC schools in School Year 1967. There were 30 in SY 68, and more are expected in SY 69, including the action to discredit ROTC at Harvard...
Germinal Heresy. The Yugoslavs take pride in the fact that they survived Soviet pressures before. In 1948, after Tito resisted Russian designs to dictate his country's political and economic policies, the Soviets kicked Tito out of the world Communist movement. In an effort to discredit him at home, the Soviets unleashed vitriolic propaganda attacks against him. They sought to intimidate the Yugoslavs by instigating some 1,500 incidents along the country's eastern border. Stalin sent Tito a letter containing a threat that he has not forgotten. "We think Trotsky's political career is sufficiently instructive...
Moscow's campaign to undermine or at least discredit the Bonn regime is not expected to involve overt military action. While U.S. officials do not discount the Kremlin's tough language entirely, they tend to think that the Russians are well aware that an armed confrontation in West Germany could swiftly lead to cataclysm. Anxious to emphasize its concern nonetheless, the U.S. last week announced that NATO maneuvers, originally scheduled for mid-1969, may be moved up to the first of the year. On several occasions, top State Department officials reiterated that the allies viewed the situation with...