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Germinal Heresy. The Yugoslavs take pride in the fact that they survived Soviet pressures before. In 1948, after Tito resisted Russian designs to dictate his country's political and economic policies, the Soviets kicked Tito out of the world Communist movement. In an effort to discredit him at home, the Soviets unleashed vitriolic propaganda attacks against him. They sought to intimidate the Yugoslavs by instigating some 1,500 incidents along the country's eastern border. Stalin sent Tito a letter containing a threat that he has not forgotten. "We think Trotsky's political career is sufficiently instructive...
Moscow's campaign to undermine or at least discredit the Bonn regime is not expected to involve overt military action. While U.S. officials do not discount the Kremlin's tough language entirely, they tend to think that the Russians are well aware that an armed confrontation in West Germany could swiftly lead to cataclysm. Anxious to emphasize its concern nonetheless, the U.S. last week announced that NATO maneuvers, originally scheduled for mid-1969, may be moved up to the first of the year. On several occasions, top State Department officials reiterated that the allies viewed the situation with...
Daley left out entirely anything that tended to discredit his police. While conceding reluctantly that police work, like any other human enterprise, can be improved, he stubbornly maintained that the police operations had been nothing short of "magnificent...
...other hand, Pearson has been helpful to L.BJ. too-on the assumption that the two men can be useful to each other. In 1964. a life insurance salesman charged that he had been forced to buy advertising on a Johnson TV staton after selling the President a policy. To discredit the salesman, the White House leaked his spotty military record to Pearson, who duly printed...
...Familiar. Too often, however, the contributors to this book are simply blinded by their own racism. The fact that Styron is a Virginia-born white seems to discredit him instantly in the eyes of more than one essayist. Rather typically, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton (Black Power) peevishly sees Styron involved in a white man's plot to divest black people of their "historical revolutionary leaders." Novelist John O. Killens ('Sippi) writes: Styron "is like a man who tries to sing the blues when he has not paid his dues." And several essayists, without even the leavening grace of black humor...