Word: discrediting
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...characterized by the press as a secret police assassin, pelted by demonstrators with bricks and umbrellas and snubbed by the Labor Government. Some observers speculated last week that Shelepin's enemies in the Kremlin might have deliberately thrust him into a situation that was bound to discredit him publicly. As one authoritative Western intelligence report has it, the Soviet leadership met in special session the very day Shelepin returned to Moscow. According to the report, his flight was conveniently an hour too late for him to join in the decision that he would "voluntarily" resign...
...with the narrator explaining the decision to extend the fight to a nation-wide boycott as carloads of union members crowd into old Chevies heading out of California. The point is that the UFW has staked all in this struggle; to back down, to call off the boycott would discredit them forever. And this is where things stand now: Chavez vows to break the growers and the Teamsters and the growers seem determined to use the Teamsters to drive, the UFW out of existence. And seen though Pearey is uncritical and uncomplicated in his approach you can't really fault...
...corruption in Philadelphia, whose Democratic mayor, Frank Rizzo, is a tough law-and-order ex-cop. Rizzo's rival in the state capital, Democratic Governor Milton Shapp and his political allies in Philadelphia saw a chance to score two points: clean up the graft-ridden police department and discredit Rizzo at the same time. To accomplish these aims, Shapp turned to a device that is becoming increasingly popular as a way of policing the police and the criminal-justice system. His administration appointed a special prosecutor, a figure above the political squabbles and beholden to no man, the contemporary...
Significant Switch. Neither Kissinger nor the Israelis are willing to deal at this point with the P.L.O., particularly in the wake of the Fatah terrorist attack on Tel Aviv's Savoy Hotel two weeks ago (TIME, March 17). That raid, as P.L.O. spokesmen made clear, was designed to discredit the Secretary's peace-keeping mission. Last week Syrian President Hafez Assad tried to pull the Palestinians into the negotiations. Assad, who has switched significantly from opposing second-stage talks between Israel and Egypt to demanding a role in them for Syria, suddenly proposed a joint Syrian-Palestinian military...
...Justice Department did send representatives, not of its Civil Rights Division, but of its less effective Community Relations Service, to Byhalia last August. Boycott leaders claim that CRS agents harassed participants in the boycott, tried to discredit black leaders and even urged blacks to resume shopping in white-owned Byhalia stores. The leaders also charge that CRS men frequently slipped money to black winos and steered them in the direction of white-owned package stores. CRS agents deny that they harassed anyone or bribed, winos. In any case, the boycott shows no signs of losing steam. The FBI has found...