Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carry on the war indefinitely. They would require continued massive American support and that, Lodge believes, would be forthcoming-if at all-only with fewer draftees and more volunteers in a different U.S. Army. In sum, Lodge apparently feels, Hanoi more than ever hopes to dominate the South and discredit the U.S., thus advancing the cause of both international Communism and its own nationalism...
...that they asked for help in paying the massive legal fees that have piled up in Chicago, where more than 200 of their members are coming to trial for rioting last month. But they deny that it was a shakedown, claiming that Moratorium leaders issued the story to discredit them. When the violence did come in Washington, the Weathermen were in the thick of it (see THE NATION...
...country. A former prison camp inmate whose evocative historical novels have dealt bluntly with the repressions of the Stalin era, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is excluded from official Moscow literary circles. He lives on the outskirts of the ancient city of Ryazan under the shadow of a Soviet campaign to discredit him. Though his major works (The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) are widely read abroad, they have never been published in Russia. Nor have any of his short stories appeared in the Soviet Union during the past three years. Last week the Soviets moved to impose on him the sentence...
This is not the first time Americans have seen their President respond to dissent by ignoring the issues and seeking to discredit dissenters themselves. But the Nixon scenario has a new and dangerous twist. By initiating unnecessary and arbitrary "safety" measures, the Administration has generated a threat of violence where none had existed before...
...serious mistake." This is only true if you warp the intention of a statement obviously made to discourage the Communist leadership in Hanoi. It is indeed ironic that this statement, made to reassure and encourage both our American forces and our South Vietnamese allies dying abroad, should discredit him so with those protesting from the safety of their homes...