Word: discreditment
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There is a movement in this country to discredit our nation. I was born here. I appreciate this country. I came from a poor family. I try to mind my own business. I go to work and hope the job will last, but I'm getting squeezed. The middle people, they're being told by the poor that they have to put up houses for them, they're being told by the rich that they have to support this program to build houses for the poor. I know, O.K., the poor might benefit, but the rich...
...enemy casualty figures were probably inflated, there was no doubt that ARVN troopers had blocked the North Vietnamese from accomplishing their goals: 1) to take one or both of the camps by Christmas; 2) to force the U.S. to commit ground troops to the action, and 3) to discredit the ARVN...
...carry on the war indefinitely. They would require continued massive American support and that, Lodge believes, would be forthcoming-if at all-only with fewer draftees and more volunteers in a different U.S. Army. In sum, Lodge apparently feels, Hanoi more than ever hopes to dominate the South and discredit the U.S., thus advancing the cause of both international Communism and its own nationalism...
...that they asked for help in paying the massive legal fees that have piled up in Chicago, where more than 200 of their members are coming to trial for rioting last month. But they deny that it was a shakedown, claiming that Moratorium leaders issued the story to discredit them. When the violence did come in Washington, the Weathermen were in the thick of it (see THE NATION...
...country. A former prison camp inmate whose evocative historical novels have dealt bluntly with the repressions of the Stalin era, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is excluded from official Moscow literary circles. He lives on the outskirts of the ancient city of Ryazan under the shadow of a Soviet campaign to discredit him. Though his major works (The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) are widely read abroad, they have never been published in Russia. Nor have any of his short stories appeared in the Soviet Union during the past three years. Last week the Soviets moved to impose on him the sentence...