Word: discreditable
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...will be successful is in doubt. Many officers still suspect Subandrio of sympathy with-if not complicity in-the coup attempt, and the army shows no willingness to settle for anything less than a clean-broom housecleaning of all Reds and Red sympathizers.* Stepping up its campaign' to discredit the Communists, the army last week made public the confession of the country's sixth-ranking Communist, a labor leader named Njono who was arrested two weeks ago. According to his confession, the Communists not only planned and executed the attempted coup, but also intended to assassinate President Sukarno...
...empty tomb and the Resurrection as legendary, stressing that they were unnecessary to the truths proclaimed by Jesus in his teachings. Schonfield claims that as a Jew he has no need to torture the no-Resurrection theory into some form of support for Christianity, but he does not discredit Christ. Instead, he argues that Christ was indeed the Messiah-the Son of Man, as he thought of himself, but not the Son of God-who had been foretold by the Jewish prophets of old, and that this is glory enough...
...Revelation's funds since he became pastor. Shuttlesworth hit back with a court order of his own, restraining the dissident leaders from disrupting any more Sunday services. He charges that the fuss is all part of a right-wing plot, fostered by the dissidents' white lawyer, to discredit the civil rights movement...
...going to decide when rules and regulations, reasonable at all times, are going to be imposed." Lack of Communication. Public officials across the U.S. could doubtless sympathize with Mayor Ryan's words. Most responsible Negro leaders also fear that such insensate outbursts of anarchy can only discredit the Negro's legitimate struggle for civil rights. What caused the disorders? There were as many explanations as" there were points of view. In Los Angeles, "the long, hot summer" was blamed -as it was in Harlem last year-and not without reason: the rioting broke out on the fourth...
...power, Villa's temper grew worse and his acts more erratic. In 1915, he led his army into open rebellion against the government. He tried to enlist the sympathy of the U.S. press by staging a real battle at the request of a film company. He tried to discredit the regime by raiding the border town of Columbus, N. Mex., and, although he achieved headline notoriety by disappearing with his whole army while General "Black Jack" Pershing led a 12,000-man punitive expedition after him, Obregon did not fall...