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...Pittsburgh, Pa., pathologist testified yesterday in Boston that the fetus Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin is accused of killing breathed before it died, and Edelin's defense quickly sought to discredit the witness...
...tung has retarded China's development. A secret Central Committee circular of last summer, which found its way out of China only recently, reports on production declines in key industrial areas, as well as popular disaffection with Mao's latest ideological movement, the campaign to discredit Confucius and through remote guilt by association, former Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...have appeared in Kenya's press, and the government apparently wants to keep it that way. Without directly mentioning the ruby affair, the Foreign Ministry warned at week's end that it "will not tolerate any section of the press, whether local or overseas, which tends to discredit the image of Kenya abroad." Kenya is a one-party state, and President Kenyatta has already been declared re-elected to another five-year term for lack of opposition. Still, in the parliamentary elections next week, publicity about high-level hanky-panky over the ruby mine could tarnish the government...
...convictions were achieved reversal was a certainty afterwards--I'm referring to the Spock trial, or the Ellsberg trial, the Ellsberg trial was a continuation of these things. All these cases are political. We all know that the Ellsberg trial was an attempt by the White House to discredit Ellsberg, or else to persecute him whether they got a conviction or not. Tying somebody up in a trial for two or three years is punishment, and it's a very great punishment. As I say, I don't recall Catch-22 being characteristic, it wasn't characteristic of the military...
During China's latest ideological campaign, intended to discredit the ideas of the ancient sage Confucius and the reputation of former Defense Chief Lin Piao,* some of these commanders came in for stinging rebukes. At least five powerful army generals, including Li Te-sheng, the Politburo's sixth-ranking member, were attacked by name on radical wall posters for, among other things, "warlordism...