Word: discreditation
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...becoming a formidable asset for CBS, but riskily so in ways that he and CBS may not realize. His documentary 3½ weeks ago, on Reagan's poverty victims, was powerful stuff and drew a Reagan demand for a half-hour reply. CBS refused. Critics have sought to discredit Moyers for having been Johnson's press secretary. But this is to obscure a larger point that applies equally to CBS's Diane Sawyer, who worked for Nixon, or ABC's Pierre Salinger, who worked for Kennedy: at one time in their careers all were morally...
...excuse, Edwards sets a Clouseau-style private investigator on Victoria's trail. A bumbling French detective, transplanted entirely intact from the Pink Panther films, discovers the truth about Victoria's gender, but not before several broadly comic mishaps. The detective shares Inspector Clouseau's inescapable fate, as his opponents discredit him without much trouble before the film ends; his brief appearance is purposeless but amusing...
Secretary Haig had earlier been caught in an embarrassing situation when he sought to discredit the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Testifying before Congress, he referred to a picture that had appeared in February in the weekend magazine of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro, which showed bodies being burned in a city street. The caption described a massacre by the Nicaraguans of the country's native Miskito Indians...
That claim is dubious in the splintered world of Salvadoran politics. The extreme left is not testing its strength in the election, which it is boycotting and hopes to discredit. The country also has a strong right, and Duarte and the centrists may have trouble holding power in the election. But Reagan Administration officials are sure that the centrists would lose outright in negotiations. The prime example of what the White House fears would happen is almost next door to El Salvador...
...Says Edward Hewett of the Brookings Institution: "A default would prompt the loss of what influence we have." The move would also hurt the reputation of Western bankers. Adds a European banking authority: "A Western declaration of default would make the Soviets chuckle. The Russians would be able to discredit the West, particularly in the Third World, where such action would be regarded as callous capitalism...