Word: shamming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most observers of South Africa consider the justice system to be a sham. But given this fact, both Gomes and Carstens believe the IDAF has successfully worked within the system and helped bring about what Gomes calls "a fair number of acquittals or sentence reductions...
According to New York Daily News reporter Ken Auletta, Adelman reportedly said in a May 1981 interview that arms control negotiations were a "sham." Auletta provided his notes and telephone bills to prove the validity of the accusations, which Adelman denied under oath. It is difficult to believe Auletta invented an interview with Adelman, particularly since the transcripts were published in the Daily News two years ago and never questioned until this week...
...called a meeting last week to vote on Adelman, Democrat Alan Cranston gave the group copies of a 1981 story from the New York Daily News in which Adelman was quoted as saying that arms control negotiations are useful only for "political reasons. I think it's a sham." Cranston then made a motion to delay voting on Adelman, apparently assuming that Percy had a majority in Adelman's favor. Percy, presumably under the same impression, sharply opposed the motion...
Adelman, who holds a Ph.D. in African studies from Georgetown University, claimed that he did "not recall" describing arms control as "a sham" and that it was not his view, either in 1981 or at present. Percy tentatively agreed, at Cranston's urging, to hold a committee hearing on whether Adelman had been quoted accurately in the Daily News...
Armstrong discovered that even Hubbard's personal background was a sham. Public records show that when Hubbard had claimed to be traveling through Asia and the South Pacific from 1925 to 1929, learning what he called "the secrets of life" from magicians, lamas, priests and wise men, he was actually a mediocre high school student. Although Hubbard presented himself as a highly educated man, he flunked out of George Washington University's engineering school after two years...