Word: discreditation
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News of the defection was received with dismayed silence in Moscow, where the name Shostakovich is revered. When an embittered posthumous volume of memoirs came out under the composer's name in the West in 1979, cultural bureaucrats sought to enlist his son in an effort to discredit the book and thus keep the official Shostakovich legend untarnished. Moscow acquaintances suggested that Maxim's frustration with his official role as keeper of his father's flame, and the increasing difficulty of obtaining visas for travel abroad, may have prompted him to take the step his troubled father...
...reliable are these reports from nuns and human rights organizations? Are they really, as Mathis claims, "probably the creation of people trying to discredit the El Salvadorean government"? Most of these groups and individuals are non-partisan and far from leftist. They are simply concerned with violations of human life and rights, and the more outspoken members are often persecuted by security forces for their disclosures and condemnations...
...River Sumpul on May 14, 1980, when security forces slaughtered 500 persons trying to cross the border into Honduras. Nelson, et al point out how slow confirmation of the Sumpul massacre was and how unreceptive the American press was to giving it prominent coverage--coverage that would discredit a regime that our government supports...
...other centers, union members and their advisers claimed that they were being subjected to police harassment. Last week, for example, Dissident Leader Adam Michnik was detained by Warsaw police for three hours. Meanwhile, an ugly new outburst of anti-Semitic rhetoric was added to the apparent campaign to discredit the independent labor movement (see box). Faced with this array of potential flash points, Walesa and Jaruzelski agreed to resume their high-level dialogue possibly as soon as this week. As Walesa put it, "Let's talk before any fires spread...
...Jews to attack? In fact there was an overwhelming suspicion that the rally organizers had another target in mind. Coming only days after the temporary detention of Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron and other incidents of harassment against Solidarity, the rally seemed to many to be an attempt to discredit the independent trade union with an emotional "Zionist" label...