Word: discreditment
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...chaotic world of international politics. No longer. The most recent confrontations over Israel reveal that the Reagan Administration has adopted a new, highly aggressive attitude toward the U.N. The U.S. goal is not just to defend Israel. It is to arrest a political trend that threatens to discredit the work of the U.N. and its specialized bodies As a senior State Department official puts it "The U.N. is not a detached forum where nations can say what they want. It is an important part of diplomacy, and should be looked at seriously by the participants " If anything, the White House...
...viewing the devastation of their country, may once again be willing to understand that they have no choice but to live together. Although most Lebanese believe that elements of the Christian Lebanese Forces were responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacre, Muslims have conspicuously avoided the opportunity to discredit the country's new President...
...kill it by silence. U.S. officials saw little they could do to refocus attention within Israel on the plan. Grumbled a senior White House adviser: "A cynical person might think that the Israelis went into West Beirut to provoke us into some land of sanction and thus to discredit our peace plan inside Israel. But of course we don't believe that." The slaughter in the Beirut camps could, however, thwart Begin's stalling strategy and force him to pay more heed to the proposals...
...extremists are now switching, as proved by numerous facts, to terrorist activities." But the terrorist action was energetically denounced by spokesmen for Solidarity, who disclaimed any connection with the gunmen who had taken over the Bern embassy. Said a union representative: "This is a provocation. Someone is out to discredit...
Kenyatta also charges the press attention to a national media that is right now on the prowl for stories that will discredit the affirmative action attempts of minority groups. "Generally, in this country there is a mood that says that affirmative action is reverse racism," he says. "What I saw in the press is the same thing I see on T.V., when folks in Boston complain that the only problem in their lives is that Blacks are getting ahead...