Word: hoax
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...Star Wars is the missing link to the first-strike. It makes the world safe for nuclear weapons. It's a hoax, basically. It's only applicability is as an offensive system...
...members of Citizens For Limited Taxation (CLT) are not happy about the new law. "Their's [the Legislature's Tax Cap Bill] is nothing but a hoax to keep the people from voting for Question Three [the CLT's version of a tax cap] on the referendum," said Pat Warnick, a CLT spokesman...
...executive director of Televangelist Pat Robertson's conservative National Legal Foundation and chief counsel for the 624 plaintiffs, all Christian Evangelicals. Anthony Podesta, president of the liberal lobby People for the American Way (P.A.W.), which is providing the legal team for the defense, counters that the case is a "hoax perpetrated by people who don't want the 42 million schoolchildren in this country to learn about ideas these people disagree with -- everything from divorce to evolution." The two sides are clashing in a federal courtroom in Mobile, where the plaintiffs have brought a suit against the Alabama state board...
...news of the high-level hoax stirred a furor in Washington last week, the Reagan Administration denied that it had orchestrated a campaign to mislead the public. "We didn't tell any lies," said the President, although he admitted "there are memos back and forth . . . I can't deny that." A quick report from the Senate Intelligence Committee seemed to support Reagan's disavowal. Whether or not some Government officials leaked false information, explained a member of the committee's staff, there was no deliberate policy behind...
...That day was filmed by the KGB and shown as a typical day in the life of Sakharov. The films depicting Sakharov's life that I saw in America were edited to create the impression of a normal life, a normal state of health. Actually, it is one big hoax, a horrible lie. Another time, the world could watch films about our well-being when we are no longer alive...