Word: discreditment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reads a poem by Berahini which has the words "shit" and "fuck" in it. He says he's sorry to say such words to the crowd, and says that Beranhini's use of those words proves he is a CIA agent trying to discredit the people's movement in Iran by using dirty language. That was two years...
...Barham was a fraud. No such luck. "This man has more gifts than you have ever seen," says Kübler-Ross. "He is probably the greatest healer that this country has." The current furor does not appear to disturb her. Says she: "Many attempts have been made to discredit us. To respond to them would be like casting pearls to swine...
...cities and towns in 35 states last week, hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of demonstrators joined in the biggest protest ever against what the country is targeting as "Big Oil." They voiced fears of a winter of low temperatures and high fuel costs, passed out "Big Oil Discredit Cards" and waved banners declaring, "I don't want to freeze in the dark." For most, the principal peeve was not gasoline prices or petroleum industry profits but the 60% rise in the cost of heating oil in the past 2½ years...
About the FBI's attempts to discredit with a planted rumor Actress Jean Seberg [Sept. 24]: How many more outrages and assaults on decency approved by the late director of the FBI must be revealed before we decide as a nation that the FBI temple in Washington needs to be renamed? The name J. Edgar Hoover has become synonymous with slander, intrigue, pettiness and uncivility...
...dirty tricks -agents had been trying to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. by recording hotel room sounds of his alleged extramarital activities and sending the tapes to his wife. Hoover readily approved the plot against Seberg. Ordered Washington headquarters in a memo: "Jean Seberg has been a financial supporter of the B.P.P. [Black Panther Party] and should be neutralized." Headquarters had only one caveat: "It would be better to wait approximately two additional months until Seberg's pregnancy would be obvious to everyone...