Word: discreditment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another effort to impede King's efforts, Moore issued another memorandum on May 10, 1968 directing agent W.C. Sullivan to furnish "cooperative news media contacts" with a document linking the Communist Party to King's Poor People's Campaign (PPC), in order to discredit...
...sellers of manufactured infant formula to Third World countries, and currently has over one-third of the market. Evidence is clear that the Nestles boycott is worrying the company, and is beginning to result in policy changes. It is also obvious that Nestles is spending large sums to discredit those supporting the boycott and to try to stop its spread. But they are fighting a losing battle. The truth will come...
...murder trial in Hackensack, N.J., has been the 51-year-old defendant himself, Mario Jascalevich. The Argentine-born physician was accused of killing five hospital patients in 1965 and 1966 by injecting them with lethal doses of curare, a muscle relaxant. His motive, the prosecution speculated, was to discredit other doctors who were challenging his authority as the hospital's chief surgeon...
After learning of the indictments from the Charlotte County grand jury, Michaelides wrote County Prosecutor Edwin Baker a five-page letter denying any guilt. "When this tragic event took place, I was thoroughly examined," he wrote, "and exonerated of any blame." Michaelides tried to discredit the Bruce family in the letter and blamed them for his own legal problems. He claimed his wife "was a criminally mistreated and unhappy person." He accused her mother of "vicious and dehumanizing" verbal assaults and said her opposition to the marriage demoralized Alexandra. He threatened: "If a more equitable approach to my case...
Davis' trial last summer for the murder of young Andrea lasted 20 weeks, the longest and most expensive murder trial in Texas history. It involved lurid testimony about sex and drug orgies at the mansion, all designed to discredit Priscilla's testimony against her husband. He was acquitted and released on $325,000 bail to await trial for the other shootings. But before the second trial could start, McCrory went to the FBI with his tale of the hit list. It included, besides Judge Eidson, the wounded family friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, who at the first trial had fingered...