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...Binh Van (subverting enemy troops) as one prong of a triple-lined war effort, accompanied by political and military action. "Direct propaganda at U.S. troops, especially draftees and colored soldiers," ordered a captured Viet Cong directive. But while Negroes are promised special treatment if they defect, other Viet Cong slander them, terrorizing villagers with tales of cannibalism by Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Greetings from Victor Charlie | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...elections that followed, while less publicized, involved, nevertheless, charges of slander and ballot stuffing by both the Machine and its opponents. In withdrawing from the election of 1959, one candidate said. "I find it impossible to continue in a race which annually results in personal slander and character assassination...

Author: By Sandra E. Ravich, | Title: Republican Club: A Quiet 20-Year-Old | 1/16/1968 | See Source »

...Pavel Litvinov's notes on the proceedings of the September trial in Moscow of his friend, Writer Vladimir Bukovsky, 26, reached several Western newspapers. In them Litvinov, 30, a physicist, describes an interview with a KGB (secret police) officer, who warned him that he would be charged with "slandering" the Soviet state if he had the notes smuggled out of Russia. "What kind of slander can there be in recording the hearing of a Soviet court?" Litvinov asked his interrogator. "Well," said the KGB man, "your notes will be a biased distortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Shaming Their Elders | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...Queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero), the interloper-knight who gives his rivals at the Round Table their joust desserts, thereby arousing the lady's passions. The King ignores their affair until the appearance of his bastard son Mordred (David Hemmings), who sunders the kingdom with slander and rumor. A war between Arthur and Lancelot begins, Guenevere flees to a nunnery, and Camelot dissolves into legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Castle That Never Was | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...epigraph from Goethe's Faust, to the effect that the Devil is the force that "wills forever evil yet does forever good." The Communist road of good intentions gives way to the hell of Soviet reality; this is Bulgakov's message-the essence of his "slander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil in Moscow | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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