Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tired of this drain on their time, money and materiel and are eager to concentrate on building their economy?and confronting some 400,000 Soviet troops poised near their borders. Moreover, they no longer fear that the U.S. will emerge from the war in any position that would seriously embarrass the Communist forces...
...When pressed hard, a U.S. embassy official, trying to conceal his own doubts, said that a doctor had been sent to examine him. In that case, asked a reporter, why could not Kissinger be lodged in an air-conditioned room in Islamabad? The reply: Kissinger did not want to embarrass anyone in the capital by his illness. At that point, reporters grew skeptical, but their hunch was that Kissinger had gone to see some East Pakistan officials...
...than they have to. At a time when Government credibility is in grave doubt, perhaps nothing would restore public confidence so much as release of the information that is now senselessly bottled up in official archives. Some of these mountains of documents might never be read; others might well embarrass the bureaucracy. But at least the Government would no longer be using the secret label merely to avoid bad publicity...
...dominant Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). The capital's police chief, Colonel Rogelio Flores Curiel, also resigned. The resignations followed Echeverría's announcement that the city government would be investigated. The Falcons are believed to have been groomed at city expense as a secret army to embarrass and thwart Echeverria's reformist policies...
...published in the Soviet Union. Despite the fact that all his major works except One Day have been banned in Russia, he felt that there was some hope for the new novel; unlike the other books, it does not center on the crimes of Stalinism, which by implication embarrass Soviet leaders who came to prominence under the old tyrant. Nonetheless, Soviet censors raised many objections. They even insisted, as Solzhenitsyn points out in the postscript, that the word God be printed in lowercase but that KGB (the secret police) be printed in capitals...