Word: embarrassments
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...impossible to reveal government plans to the public without also revealing them to the enemy, and therefore secrecy is often necessary in foreign affairs and military operations. But frequently information is kept secret merely because it might politically embarrass the Administration. Refusal to reveal the pilots' deaths was clearly such a case. Although the Administration admitted sponsoring the invasion, it still denied that American personnel had been involved and refused to give information about the flyers to their widows. The only people told, as far as is known, were Administration supporters in the Senate...
...Brazilians. Venezuela would get the ship and the crew back, and the hijackers would probably get political asylum, despite Venezuelan demands that they be sent home to stand trial as common criminals. If Rojas and his boys had not accomplished all they set out to do-namely, to embarrass Venezuela's President Betancourt into canceling last week's visit to the U.S.-they had at least pulled off a caper that they could chortle over for years...
...Anzoátegui only a few hours after it left the port of La Guaira bound for Houston and New Orleans. Betancourt might have expected something of the sort. Though the pro-Castro group is not powerful enough to overthrow Venezuela's President, it does its best to embarrass him-particularly since he is scheduled to make a state visit to the U.S. this week. In the campaign, FALN terrorists have been shooting up police cars, setting fire to U.S. businesses and threatening to kill U.S. citizens. But the Anzoátegui hijacking was its biggest stunt...
...with proper evidence of the safety of their work. The fact that the University has not held up a ruined volunteer as an example of the dangers is no mitigation; first, because mental breakdowns can rarely be assigned a unique cause, and second, because the University is unlikely to embarrass one of its members...
...CRIMSON in triumph flashing humbled an eager but inept WHRB staff Thursday in a free-wheeling touch football game. Not wishing to embarrass the broadcasters, the CRIMSON judiciously kept the score down...