Word: discredited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quietly. Helms and Kissinger turned down ITT's ideas and its cash. Yet ITT did not give up. Nearly a year after Allende came to power, company officials were still plotting to discredit him. William Merriam, then head of ITT's Washington office, sent to Peter G. Peterson, then Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, an "18-point program." In a letter, Merriam suggested that "everything should be done, quietly, but effectively, to see that Allende doesn't get through the next six months." Among the recommendations: cut off U.S. aid and credit to Chile...
...government response to these accounts has been one of complete denial. Government sources say the prisoners are impostors, hired to discredit them prior to President Thieu's trip to San Clemente. Some in the government seem genuinely to doubt that the men really exist. "How can these men be alive?" asked one knowledgeable and honest government security officer. "No one ever comes back from the Con Son tiger cages alive...
...recent weeks, several facts have turned up to discredit the show. Witnesses against Herbert have told him that they are ready to testify that they were forced to make their statements. Barry Lando, who did most of the "research," turns out to be a writer who asked to co-author Herbert's book, and when rejected swore, before several witnesses, that he would 'get even...
...proliferation of commercial tax specialists, including many "refund mills" that pop up like crocuses in March, make a killing helping taxpayers cheat the Government, then fade away on April 16. Now the Internal Revenue Service has opened a nationwide campaign of investigations, arrests and prosecutions to root out and discredit these fly-by-nights. At the same time, the taxmen have launched a sweet-talking publicity campaign urging people who have minor tax problems to seek help in preparing their returns from IRS agents themselves-a campaign that outside taxmen can hardly believe anyone would take seriously. Cracks one specialist...
...over nationalization of their mines, and landlords, who had had their estates reduced by land reforms, staged a protest in the Las Bela district of Baluchistan. Government troops began moving into the area. Governor Bizenjo charged that the rebellion was actually inspired by the government as a pretext to discredit N.A.P. leadership before it could marshal opposition to Bhutto's proposed new constitution...