Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seek a change of venue from Washington, where the Watergate controversy is the hottest, and try to have the defendants' cases split off into separate trials. A mass trial affords prosecutors greater opportunity to introduce more evidence affecting each defendant. But the main strategy may be to try to discredit the accusing witnesses, many of whom have admitted their own criminal roles. The defense attorneys may ask: How can anyone believe convicted felons who are making charges against others so that they can get away with the lightest sentences themselves...
...official publication in 1962 of his concentration camp novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that Pravda hailed as a masterpiece. Nikita Khrushchev was, in a way, his patron; he had encouraged the publication of One Day as part of his own effort to discredit Stalin. But once Khrushchev himself was deposed, there followed for Solzhenitsyn a decade of increasingly dramatic confrontations with the authorities. His subsequent novels were banned, and he was regularly excoriated in the Soviet press...
...concentration-camp folklore." In addition, vituperative articles by prominent Soviet writers about Gulag have appeared in the New York Times and France's Le Monde. These and other "exclusives" appearing in the Western press were all arranged by the Soviet news agency Novosti in an obvious attempt to discredit Gulag...
...White House-inspired campaign to discredit President Nixon's chief Watergate accuser, former White House Counsel John Dean, continued last week. But the special prosecutor's staff took the unusual step of defending Dean's credibility in a public federal court hearing in Washington...
...whites were thus encouraged to leave the inner city, leaving behind the more helpless and criminally inclined groups. Because of the social decay that ensued, structurally sound housing was abandoned, contributing to the ghetto housing shortage. But the fact that housing policies led to undesirable results does not totally discredit them. Anthony Downs, chairman of the Real Estate Research Corp., argues that a solution lies in a broader social policy that would transfer some of the ghetto poor to the suburbs and provide those who remain with more jobs and better protection against crime...