Word: discreditable
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...agents, and summoned the Belgian ambassador to make the fantastic charge that he had uncovered a Belgian plot to murder him. "The assassins were discovered and arrested in my residence," cried Lumumba. "They were armed to the teeth." Everything that was happening, Lumumba insisted, was a Belgian plot to discredit the Congolese government...
...Dwight Eisenhower to visit Russia was a fear that in Russia, too, the people would enthusiastically respond to him as a symbol of the U.S. Last week, with the President preparing for a mid-June trip to the Philippines, Formosa, Japan and South Korea, Khrushchev worked desperately to discredit the symbol. Pravda followed up with a warning that it would do Ike "no good" to go to Japan...
...bitterly anti-Chessman Los Angeles Times thought he might well be. "One atrocious but clever criminal called into question our judicial system and brought discredit to our laws," editorialized the Times. "Then ... he intimidated the Governor of California and drove the timorous U.S. State Department to declare him an international issue. And finally, he beheld the legislature in a session specially called to change the law so that he could be saved from execution . . . What will happen now? They would not change the law for Chessman, but it would be unwise to give odds that he won't beat...
...source of never ending embarrassment to George Meany, who has labored long and well to eliminate segregation in unions. Last week he admitted that the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Civil Rights Committee was stymied by Local 26. To spread the blame for the shame, Democrat Meany then elected to discredit the President's Committee, through whose good works Vice President Nixon has been rolling up quite a bit of popular support among Negro voters...
This is no discredit to the pioneering Christian mission schools, which have trained virtually every native leader and are today responsible for perhaps 85% of elementary education in non-Moslem black Africa. But such schools are still too few, and the colonial powers have done little to supplement them. The Belgians, for example, only recently started a secondary school system. Britain's Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland has only three secondary schools funneling Africans into the multiracial University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Though 180.000 African children attend the federation's primary schools, the secondary schools have admitted...