Word: discreditment
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...invitation of Yuri Andropov in 1983, the Soviet media hinted that her plane crashed as a result of foul play. No lie is too big: the news agency TASS blithely reported last October that the Pentagon was poisoning the Amazon River. The Soviets still regularly use forgeries to discredit the U.S. Last July the Soviet press published a letter to Chile's President Augusto Pinochet, purportedly from a U.S. Army general, welcoming Chilean troops to fight in El Salvador...
...Akif was actually School Friend Kadem, after all. The charge is significant because Kadem is a leftist, unlike Celik and Ay, who have ties to an ultraright Turkish terrorist group known as the Gray Wolves. If it can be proved that Kadem was involved in the shooting, it would discredit East bloc charges that only Turkish neo- Nazis had a hand in the plot...
Puccio then set out to discredit the prosecution's witnesses. He insisted that the sparrowlike Maria Schrallhammer, Mrs. Von Bulow's maid of 23 years, viewed Von Bulow as a shadowy interloper who broke up the "fairy tale" romance of Sunny's first marriage, which ended in divorce. About onetime Soap Opera Actress Alexandra Isles, Claus' former lover, Puccio turned sarcastic: "She appeared before you in one of her most dramatic performances." In the end, Puccio asked not for sympathy but justice. "It's not a pretty picture," he said. "Mr. Von Bulow was cheating on his wife...
...most important, that how Harvard invests its tiny portion of American capital does more to battle apartheid than what people at Harvard can do as members of the nation's leading educational institution: discredit the South African government and, as through President Bok's South Africa Education Program, help provide top education for Black South Africans...
Perhaps this analysis of White House maneuvering explains an extraordinary series of disclosures scored recently by The Wall Street Journal and especial by Joel Brinkley of The New York Times. Secret and important intelligence reports trickle out with suspicious regularity Unnamed sources contradict even discredit, the Administration line. Are White House aides, along with career CIA and State Department officials worried about their own futures trying to sidestep the political morass of Central America by preventing Reagan from being Reagan in Nicaragua...