Word: discreditment
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...spoken out in recent weeks against the Duarte government he once served. He has said President Duarte pretends he cannot control the death squads of the right. In reality, Majano insists, Duarte has never made any attempt to assign responsibility for the killings, presumably because any investigation would thoroughly discredit his internal security forces...
...billion budget. It seems more likely though and this is evidenced by the scarce references to the Stockman article in the Crimson editorial, that the Crimson editor simply read a few secondhand newspaper accounts of the article and then opportunistically launched into a nasty essay which attempts to discredit the whole of supply-side economics and the integrity of the President...
...long-awaited negotiations approach, both sides clearly have far to go before any solid arms control agreement can be reached. And in the interim, Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet officials will surely continue to try to discredit the U.S. and weaken NATO, by exploiting the growing fears in Europe of nuclear warfare...
...people. Jefferson did not fare much better with progressives, who loved the people all right, but thought a powerful government, wrested away from the interests, was the only sure protector of the people. (Teddy Roosevelt 100 years later was still fuming about Jefferson's foreign policy: "a discredit to my country.") Woodrow Wilson made scholarly attempts to rescue Jefferson from the presidential scrap heap. It was left to Franklin Roosevelt, no scholar but a superb manager of political stage effects, to elevate Jefferson to the presidential pantheon. The intellectual sleight of hand was simple enough: the New Deal...
...think it necessary to provide a lengthy response to the attack on myself and my organization (the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee) by the Spartacus Youth League printed in your letter section of October 26. I have always believed that the best way to discredit the SYL is to let them speak (or write) for themselves, and they have reaffirmed my faith with their latest diatribe. I would, however, like to briefly describe our meeting policy...