Word: discreditment
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...told Wallace that the incident had not occurred and that Herbert had never recommended him for a medal. In the program's most dramatic sequence, Grimshaw appeared in a New York studio to deny-in Herbert's presence-the charge that the Army had ordered him to discredit the book...
...fall from grace. In a larger sense, it is also a study of the Army in decline. At times, because it carries the entire weight of Herbert's obviously one-sided case against his superiors, the account seems self-righteous. Indeed, the Army has done its best to discredit Herbert, accusing him of creating "fiction," insubordination and poor leadership. But whatever weaknesses Herbert's case against his two immediate superior officers may contain, the evidence he presents against the Army's conduct as such is overwhelming, triangulated as it is by all the press reports...
...could hardly look to the Democratic Administration for help. While his lawyers tried a variety of legal tactics to have the verdicts overturned, other allies tried different gambits. Those who had testified against him were alternately offered bribes and issued threats to change their stories. In an effort to discredit the jurors in one trial, four bellhops at the hotel where the jurors had stayed were induced to tell a lurid story about the guests' behavior. When the tale was disproved and the bellhops fired, they were hired by a hotel on which the Teamsters held the mortgage. Later...
...dimension to a growing conflict over the rights of newsmen to keep secrets. The Times's source-former FBI Agent Alfred Baldwin III-was clearly identified in the story. Defense lawyers wanted the tapes of his interview on the chance that unused portions would yield information that might discredit Baldwin as a witness...
Some Western observers speculate that the Soviets preferred to let Chalidze out of Russia in order to dump an embarrassing dissident. The next step, Sovietologists believe, will be a Soviet press campaign calculated to discredit him with followers in Russia by claiming that he acted disloyally...