Word: slanderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet move against the two newsmen, the New York Times's Craig R. Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold D. Piper, was unwarranted and unprecedented. The complaint charged them with slander in their coverage in May of Dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia's purported confession of anti-Soviet activities, even though their dispatches appeared only...
...political purpose." U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon told U.S. correspondents in Moscow that he thought the Soviet intent was clear: "This is an effort to get a message across to you people that unless you confine your quotations to official Soviet sources, you run a risk of being charged with slander...
...Toon that the action was a new effort to intimidate them and to discourage their reporting on Soviet dissidents. Yet when asked by newsmen in Washington whether reporters covering the 1980 Olympics in Moscow will be similarly harassed, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin snapped: "You know perfectly well what is slander and what is not." He said there will be "no harassment that will hurt doing your job as newspapermen...
...U.M.W.'s redoubtable President John L. Lewis once thundered: "The public does not know that a man who works in a coal mine is not afraid of anything except his God, that he is not afraid of injunctions or politicians or threats or denunciations or verbal castigations or slander, that he does not fear death." With due allowance for rhetoric, the autocratic ruler of one of the world's unruliest unions was not exaggerating. Flouting Taft-Hartley is about on the order of brushing a speck of coal dust out of the eye. "We may be harassed, fined...
...text. Christians point out that they could conceivably be convicted of offering material inducement if a recently converted Jew made use of Christian-run schools or hospital services. One spokesman adds that the bill's suggestion that well-heeled Christian missions engage in bribery for souls is "calumny, slander and libel, as well as an incitement to hatred." By official record, only 17 Israeli Jews converted to Christianity from 1974 to 1976, though Christians claim that considerably more have secretly done...