Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could hardly look to the Democratic Administration for help. While his lawyers tried a variety of legal tactics to have the verdicts overturned, other allies tried different gambits. Those who had testified against him were alternately offered bribes and issued threats to change their stories. In an effort to discredit the jurors in one trial, four bellhops at the hotel where the jurors had stayed were induced to tell a lurid story about the guests' behavior. When the tale was disproved and the bellhops fired, they were hired by a hotel on which the Teamsters held the mortgage. Later...
...dimension to a growing conflict over the rights of newsmen to keep secrets. The Times's source-former FBI Agent Alfred Baldwin III-was clearly identified in the story. Defense lawyers wanted the tapes of his interview on the chance that unused portions would yield information that might discredit Baldwin as a witness...
Some Western observers speculate that the Soviets preferred to let Chalidze out of Russia in order to dump an embarrassing dissident. The next step, Sovietologists believe, will be a Soviet press campaign calculated to discredit him with followers in Russia by claiming that he acted disloyally...
...said. Wiesenthal theorized that Farago may have been fed some false information by underground Nazi agents seeking to keep authorities off the trail of other war criminals. Wiesenthal, among others, further speculated that the government of Alejandro Lanusse may have leaked material to Farago to discredit Perón on his return to Argentina...
...Jews. While in Boston to stump for Edward Teixeira, the unsuccessful C.P. candidate for state representative from Wand 14 Angela explained that the situation of Jews in Russia "has been totally blown out of proportion by the bourgeois press because they're going to do everything they can to discredit socialism...