Word: discreditment
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Details of a plot to sacrifice lives of American college students in an attempt to discredit U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean were disclosed today...
...Communist propaganda apparatus is busy nowadays with intramural squabbling between the Russians and Chinese, but its main purpose remains: to discredit the free world, through ideological friends and dupes as well as through agents. It enlists a network of ostensibly independent papers, stoops to clumsy but temporarily harassing forgeries usually purported to be U.S. documents showing American diplomats engaged in subversion of neutralist governments. It can spark ventures like the protest movement against the execution in 1953 of the convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were able to claim in one of their last petitions that "never have more...
...North Viet Nam and Red China, the President said: "Communist China apparently desires the war to continue, whatever the cost to their allies. Their target is not merely South Viet Nam. It is Asia. Their objective is not the fulfillment of Vietnamese nationalism. It is to erode and to discredit America's ability to help prevent Chinese domination over all of Asia." Speaking slowly and emphatically, he added: "In this domination they shall never succeed. And I am continuing, and I am increasing the search for every possible path to peace...
...occasion this time was the presentation of Inönü's 1965 budget, totaling a record $1.6 billion. Though nobody actually had much against the budget, J.P. Leader Suleyman Demirel, 41, a wealthy, U.S.-trained civil engineer, mounted an assault on it to discredit Inönü. The Premier was vulnerable: backed solidly by only 192 members of the 450-seat National Assembly, Inönü ruled with the aid of a mere handful of independents. When the vote came last week, the Justice Party, which has 171 Assembly seats, had rounded up enough support from...
...choose victims in the first place. Since "un-American" has no legal meaning, the Committee enjoys the distressing power to define and redefine the word as it pleases. If Weltner's proposal effectively dramatizes this fact, it will have served what we hope is its true purpose: to discredit and lampoon the Committee in the eyes of Congress and the people...