Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amused by the article "Legislate the Truth?" [July 21], wherein you reported that the staff of Senator Edward Kennedy is drafting a bill to declare it a crime for any Government official knowingly to mislead or lie to the public...
...Security Conference was and is far less important than either SALT or MBFR. Only in the final stage at Geneva, when it appeared that some substantial gains might be possible in Basket Three, did the U.S. become fully engaged. Washington had been worried that the conference might mislead many Europeans into a false euphoria about the progress of détente. The fact that the Russians fought so hard against the so-called "confidence-building measures" (such as advance notification about military maneuvers) in Basket One went a long way toward dispelling that fear. "Nobody's going to disband...
...citizen who "willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up" a material fact from any agent of the Government. Massachusetts' Senator Edward Kennedy wants to make the law a two-edged sword: his staff is drafting a bill to declare it a crime for any Government official knowingly to mislead or lie to the public...
Being visible does not help the scientists' research careers. Other scientists see them, Goodell says, "as a pollution in the scientific community," as publicity grabbers who depart from normal scientific channels to communicate their views. These critics complain that their better publicized colleagues may mislead the public because they often speak outside their area of expertise. Biologist George Wald, a Nobel Laureate and vociferous antiwar spokesman, disagrees. "If the scientist is good," he says, "his field is reality, and that covers an awful lot of ground. I think that the scientist can be that rare, disinterested person who calls...
...Scali bristled at the king-size Kissinger ego, and of late at the U.N. relations between the two men have grown increasingly strained. Scali was especially annoyed by Kissinger's recent hard line toward Israel, as well as by Kissinger moves that obliged Scali, in his view, to mislead his U.N. colleagues about U.S. aims and activities in Viet...