Word: frame-up
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Perdue charged that the VVAW frame-up was another part of a comprehensive attack on liberals and radicals of which Watergate was only another fragment...
...William Windom, and lets go with a series of scorching comments about South African racism. It seems that a young American black (George Stanford Brown) has been accused of attempting to assassinate the South African Defense Minister. He has confided to Jones that the whole thing is a frame-up, and Jones believes him, laying himself open for an international wrangle over extradition...
Steiniger does not pay much attention to the facts. Instead, he depicts the proceeding as a "monster trial," attacks the blatant "racism" of the jury, and insists that the young Marxist philosophy teacher is the victim of a frame-up. Angela is being persecuted, he reports, because she is black and a Communist, who is combating the monopolistic imperialist elite that rules the U.S. On the Communists' International Women's Day, Steiniger solemnly presented Miss Davis with 50 red carnations...
Although forced into what he felt was a frame-up, Jackson had no intention of being sent down river without showing some resistance. Employing what he later came to view as a "Very significant thing for our struggle here in the U.S: (that) all blacks do look alike to certain types of white people" to its best advantage, Jackson tied up a black who was scheduled to be released from the jail the next day, and left the following morning in his place. Jackson remained free for less than a month before being recaptured in Harrisburg, Ill. Upon being returned...
Harrison denied the charges last night. "The whole thing was a frame-up." he said, "We were engaged in a legal political protest and the cops came in and broke...