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After a five-day recess, Prosecutor Jiang Wen condemned Mme. Mao's defense as "a vicious slander and calumny of Chairman Mao Tse-tung." Significantly, the prosecutor did acknowledge that all people in China "are very clear that Chairman Mao was responsible for their plight during the Cultural Revolution"-the sole official recognition of Mao's mistakes made in the trial. But the prosecutor hastily added that Mao could not have ordered his wife to commit such crimes as the attacks on high state and party officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: A Leader's Rise, a Widow's Fall | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...ideological imperialism" rampant in faculty lounges and student cafeterias. But that just made many academics all the more wary of Saunier-Seïté and her efforts to reorganize them. Says Sorbonne Classics Professor André Mandouze: "This is an effort to muzzle intellectuals, to isolate and slander them, and to undermine the French university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guillotining the Grad Schools | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...long, America!" cried Clement, in a grandiloquent filch from Cicero's First Catiline Oration. "How long, O America, shall these things endure?" In Dwight Eisenhower's foreign policy, Clement declaimed, "Foster [Dulles] fiddles, frets, fritters and flits." Richard Nixon was "the vice-hatchet man slinging slander and spreading half-truths while the top man peers down the green fairways of indifference." To farmers, the gusty Tennessean pleaded: "Come on home . . . Your lands are studded with the white skulls and crossbones of broken Republican promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fall of Oratory | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...Soviet press as a peddler of "slander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1980 | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...complement each other?the natural vagueness of Carter and the adventurousness of Brzezinski." Moscow was greatly relieved that the job would not go to Brzezinski, a man who they feel is a Soviet-hater by nature and who is often attacked in the Soviet press as a peddler of "slander and obvious lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Surprise at State | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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