Word: misleads
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...Committee concluded that "It was a paradox that those... who supported apartheid tried to mislead world opinion by claiming that economic and financial developments would in the long run end apartheid, whilethey used financial and economic pressure to destroy opposition...
...Meyer's new film reveals his obstinate faith in an ethic no more applicable today than tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. If all along the fire-breathing amazons of his earlier films have wanted the kind of suburban respectability Meyer poses as an ideal, then we have been badly mislead. Good pornography, and there is such a thing as good pornography, will feel the loss...
That decision was not likely to be final. There are outspoken dissenters among the regents themselves. Said Fred Dutton, a liberal regent, of the majority decision. "The Angela Davis charade is a con game to mislead the people of this state." Moreover, a majority of students and faculty members has lined up on Angela's side. U.C.L.A.'s academic senate, composed solely of faculty members, expressing "our shock, our dismay, our rage," voted to defy the regents by taking steps to keep Miss Davis on the faculty...
Kennedy also lashed out at Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, saying that his latest policy statements "presented a distorted picture of the strategic balance which can only panic and mislead the American people into accepting an escalation of the arms race...
...nationalism, if carried to extremes, could lead to separatist schemes and policies which are unrealistic for an 11% minority that must live with whites. As for "revolution," it is clearly impossible, and irresponsible talk about it, however justified the anger that prompts it, can be dangerous because it may mislead blacks about the extent of their power and may serve to confirm whites in fear and repression. The most hopeful strategy thus seems to be the determined use of political organization and economic pressure that have been used countless times before within the U.S. system. This strategy can make full...