Word: groundlessly
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This belligerent attitude, founded or not, has produced a series of tactical disasters for the army. Indiscriminate army searches, groundless arrests, the use of rubber bullets, and especially the internment of political suspects (now ended)--all these have alienated the Catholic community. Whatever argument can be erected in the defense of these as military necessities, no argument can defend the general "tone" of the army's conduct in carrying them out. Despite the denials and counter-accusations, there is little doubt that the army has committed with some regularity acts of gross harassment, beatings, psychological brutalities and other rights violations...
Mary Conlon, administrative assistant to the dean of Law and a member of the ad hoc committee, said yesterday women councilors had been concerned that the committee would want to place its own members on the commission, but that she believes such fears are groundless...
Jose Cabranes, Yale's attorney, denounced the suit as "reckless and obviously designed to attract maximum publicity for groundless charges." He said the university already had a system for investigating the harassment of students -but it is a system set up last year only to aid blacks, and has never been used to investigate sexual coercion charges...
Robert E. Kaufmann '62, chairman of the search committee, said Thursday that the fears of the 40 athletes--most of whom are varsity captains or porminent names on the Harvard-Radcliffe roster--are groundless...
...very televised news conference that he summoned to trumpet Special Prosecutor Charles Ruffs declaration that charges against him were groundless (see following story), the President attacked Carter for having "slandered" the good name of the U.S. in their last debate and repeated his vastly exaggerated claims that Carter, as President, would increase Government spending by at least $100 billion and boost taxes for everyone earning more than $14,000 a year. At almost the same moment, Carter was promising he would "never" boost taxes on wages or salaries, a pledge that could prove tough to keep. Though Carter muted...