Word: discreditment
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...opinion on anything...even if you're asked directly. "Liang's book may present an inglorious picture of China's past, but political changes after Mao's death make such a picture politically safe for the author. Deng Xiao-Ping, the new premier, entered office with a movement to discredit the "leftist" policies of Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, and her "Gang of Four", Liang sees those policies as the source of the problems he narrates, and properly disassociates the new from the old regime. Significantly, the book shows almost no opinion on the new regime or its policies...
...certain lines of demarcation between their forces. But some U.S. officials in Beirut remained convinced that the Israeli moves last month, as well as recent Israeli charges that the Marines were failing to stop "terrorists" from passing through Marine positions, were part of an Israeli strategy. Its purpose: to discredit the Marines, as well as the French and Italian forces, and to reinforce the argument that the task of patrolling southern Lebanon, once the occupying armies have been withdrawn from the rest of the country, should be retained by the Israelis...
...Supreme Court withstood one such Administration onslaught last week when it refused to hear a Tennessee school busing case that the Reagan Administration had hoped to use to discredit mandatory school desegregation efforts. The case involves a Nashville court-ordered busing plan for students from kindergarten through high school in both city and suburban school districts. Last November, the Justice Department joined the city's appeal of a circuit court decision backing the plan because it found that Nashville schools are still segregated even after 27 years of civil rights litigation...
...hurts me to see the Band, at its most public moments, discredit itself week after week, year after year. I can understand if one has an idea, tries it, and it doesn't go over. One discards it and all is soon forgotten and forgiven. But the pig-headed obstinacy of your present leadership in persisting for years with an approach that would close on Broadway after the opening week--this is unreasonable, and also inexcusable. It is rotten leadership...
...papal shooting. He accused Western intelligence agencies and the Western press of conducting "a malicious campaign that has not a grain or iota of truth." Added Zamyatin: "If these insinuations continue, it will be seen as a deliberate campaign of aggravating world tension, an evil-minded campaign to discredit Bulgaria and the Soviet Union in the eyes of Catholics...