Word: discreditment
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...course, North's network has come apart with a crash so resounding that it threatens to discredit the entire Reagan Doctrine. Despite the severe excesses committed in its name, the strategy of combatting Soviet expansionism is at least a debatable option for U.S. foreign policy. But any policy that is concealed from Congress and much of the Government always runs the risk of conferring enormous power on individuals who may abuse it or confuse it with their own reckless or over-zealous imperatives. That is just what happened in the case of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. He wound up disastrously...
...long run, the consolidation of a Communist system in Nicaragua also becomes a threat to peace. I have no doubt that the Communist government of Nicaragua is not the best for my country. If there's one country the Sandinistas, given their expansionist ideology, must try to discredit as an oasis of democracy and peace, it is mine...
...time, Lyman Kirkpatrick. Although Kirkpatrick, 70, who resigned from the CIA in 1965, ordered the destruction of all the records on which his report was based, Pfeiffer managed to uncover the material. He says it led him to conclude that Kirkpatrick had deliberately skewed the report to discredit Bissell, who was his rival for the position of CIA director...
...passions raised by the venerable legal strategy of trying to discredit the victim got further visibility last week at hearings in another much publicized case, the murder trial of Robert Chambers, 20. A handsome preppie college dropout, Chambers claims to have accidentally strangled Jennifer Levin, 18, when she hurt him during predawn sex in New York City's Central Park last August. To bolster Chambers' version of the killing, Defense Attorney Jack Litman attempted to obtain Levin's diary as evidence, characterizing it as a chronicle of her "kinky and aggressive" sex life. After reading the diary privately, the presiding...
...promised the newsmen a lengthier interview and an opportunity to talk to the women if the reporters would delay their story. They refused, fearing that the extra time would give the Hart camp a chance to construct a cover story and possibly hold a press conference to try to discredit the Herald's article in advance...