Word: embarrassement
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...Senator William Fulbright and other committee members might be receiving information from Communists or other subversives. Noted Sullivan: "There was no evidence of this." At another time, the President asked the FBI to see if it could uncover Republicans he suspected of fomenting a riot in New York to embarrass the White House. When none turned up, Johnson asked again: "Weren't there at least one or two Republicans involved?" Sullivan: "Again the answer...
...factor in the arrest of six members of the V.V.A.W. in July 1972 on charges of conspiring and crossing state lines to incite a riot (subsequently, another vet and a civilian ally were also charged). Denying the charges, the defendants insisted that the arrests were purely political, designed to embarrass the leadership of the veterans and prevent their legal anti-Nixon demonstrations at the convention. Now the case of the "Gainesville Eight" has come to court as the latest -and possibly last-of the celebrated conspiracy trials of recent years. Those often traumatic trials, like the Gainesville case, were...
...voting ochi (no), Greeks could merely embarrass the regime by refusing Papadopoulos' request for them to legitimize his rule. He vowed in a television address not to resign and "not to be overthrown by a vote of rejection." Whether Greeks voted yes to accept a so-called republic and permit parliamentary elections next year or no to protest abolition of the monarchy, the outcome was the same-continued iron-fisted rule by Papadopoulos. Greeks could not abstain from voting, since by law they must either vote or risk going to jail. The referendum, in short, was a charade...
Panama's decision to call a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in Panama City was primarily intended to embarrass the U.S. for maintaining control of the Panama Canal-and it succeeded. On opening day, the delegates arriving at Panama's Legislative Palace faced a three-story billboard that declared in the five official U.N. languages: "You may rest assured that in our negotiations with the U.S. you will always find us standing on our feet and never on our knees. Never! Torrijos...
...exceptions: Sadie Stern's long first-person story called "The Saddest Young Woman" is stylistically promising if immature. Cynthia MacDonald's "Another Attempt at the Trick" is a deft and chatty poem symbolizing art as a fantastic tight-rope walk. The visuals are of a quality that tends to embarrass the verbals: there is an excellent photo essay on Hell's Angels by Barbara Boatner, a portfolio of portraits of women, several skillful sketches and a witty, colloquial cover by Marisol...