Word: discreditment
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Every election year, with surprising regularity, the "Soviet threat" is evoked and America's military capabilities are denigrated. This is a political ploy used alternately by Republican challenger to discredit the defense policies of a Democratic incumbent, or by a Democratic challenger trying to appeal to more traditionally-Republican constituencies...
...parties challenged the document's authenticity; but each denied having leaked it. In Moscow, Party Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin told reporters that "your best sources would be in Rome." Ital ian Communist Party officials were equally evasive, hinting that the Kremlin might have leaked the letter to discredit Berlinguer in the eyes of hard-line party members. Panorama Journalist Carlo Rossella added to the mys tery, explaining that he had been given a translation of the letter at a surreptitious meeting in a Milan restaurant. But he refused to identify the informant...
...Soviet history. Such actions then continued; in 1966 a literary work was used for the first time as evidence in court against its writer; in 1968 the first person was arrested for distributing letters in defense of prisoners of conscience, in 1972 the first attempt was made to discredit the movement rather than individual remarks. But equally there were milestones: the first publication of a Chronicle of Human Rights in the USSR, the formation of the first Helsinki watch groups, the Assembly of the Committee for Human Rights...
...been spared? I can only speculate. The mullah and guards who singled me out were obviously acting on behalf of one of the many factions that exist within the militant clergy, a group trying to discredit Ghotbzadeh. They had no official authorization to do anything to me. My wife had been frantically phoning my government sources all evening, and word probably reached my captors that powerful officials were asking after me. Failing to force a confession that would suit their needs, the unknown mullah and his men then simply abandoned me. They left me in the prison, where the authorities...
...businessmen were further hardened against the regime after security forces last November shot to death Jorge Salazar, a popular, prominent businessman and COSEP member. The Sandinistas claim that Salazar was conspiring to overthrow the government, but business sources believe that he was framed in order to discredit the private sector...