Word: discreditment
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...intrusion. The aid which the Soviet Union gave MPLA during the 14 years of anti-colonial struggle was more than offset by sums dispatched to persuade or blackmail governments and organizations into not recognizing its principal rival, UNITA. Large sums were equally invested in an elaborate propaganda mechanism to discredit its Angolan rival, claiming it nonexistent or otherwise in the pay of one foreign power or another. Attempts at unification of the movements, not just in Angola but in Rhodesia, Namibia and South Africa as well, were undermined by Soviet fears of losing control over their favored sons...
...bring back firsthand accounts to the black community of what is really going on. Their reports are at total variance with the sophisticated information networks of the American liberal and pro-Soviet support groups in America, who have not only glorified MPLA but also go to great lengths to discredit UNITA. ALSC, in unison with more strictly nationalist groups, claims that the black community has been deceived about the situation in Angola...
...APPARENT failure of the Kissinger diplomatic offensive in the Middle East will certainly renew and probably enhance Russia's eclipsed role in the region. The leftist forces may also emerge stronger from the debacle, especially if the radical Arab groups can discredit Sadat's and Saudi Arabia's policy while avoiding the appearance of being responsible for its failure. When confronted with such developments. US officials may be attracted to the intervention option as a way of recouping militarily diplomatic and political losses...
...most recent Harris Poll, 60% of the population has expressed the opinion that there must have been a conspiracy to murder the civil rights leader. Prompted by the revelation that the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had conducted a vicious vendetta to discredit King, the Justice Department is probing both the FBI's harassment of him and its investigation of his death...
...York Times demanding a retraction. Some Italian politicians were dismayed that the Ford Administration did not simply issue a categorical denial of any plans for secret funding. Not only did the revelations play into the hands of the Communists-they can now use the CIA issue to discredit moderates in future elections -but whatever funds do exist are, for the time being, obviously off limits. No prudent Italian politician would think of accepting any money now, for fear that his face might appear the next day in some American newspaper...