Word: slandering
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Increasingly angered by the dissident activities of Andrei Sakharov over the past two decades, Soviet authorities last week moved to exact another bit of vengeance. A court reportedly sentenced Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, 61, to five years of internal exile for anti-Soviet slander. For Sakharov, 63, the blow was worsened by the prospect that Bonner may not survive the hardships of banishment. She has already suffered several heart attacks. When she was visited by a close family friend early this year, her lips and fingernails had turned blue and she was taking several dozen nitroglycerin tablets...
...aired a libel suit by Carol Burnett against the National Enquirer and a slander suit by California Physician Carl Galloway against CBS's 60 Minutes, but this is the first time it has aired a criminal case. Said CNN President Burt Reinhardt: "The network is devoted to allowing viewers to make their own judgments, rather than assessing news events for them." The intense attention to the gang-rape trial is a subject for debate, however, even within the staff. Says one writer: "Let's face it, they are running the trial because of its sexy nature...
This fact shouldn't provide an easy excuse for Presidential candidates, or anyone for that matter, to slander certain groups of fellow citizens. But it should be clearly acknowledged in order to defuse the incredible ethnic touchiness that remains the legacy of well-intentioned...
...bandit gangs operating primarily from Pakistan territory, Washington and Peking raised an unprecedented hue and cry. The Soviet Union was accused of all imaginable sins: an ambition to make a breakthrough to the warm seas, an intention to pocket foreign oil, etc. The actual reason for that campaign of slander was the collapse of the plans to draw Afghanistan into the orbit of imperialist politics and to create a threat to our country from the south. Now life in Afghanistan is gradually returning to normal...
...implementation of these policies. We simply can't depend on his successor to alienate people the way Watt could. Perhaps the first noticeable effect will come later this month, as the Supreme Court deliberates on the legality of the sale of offshore reefs. Whom can we count on to slander the Justices? Who is our man to trip up the defense? Sadly, there is sure to be silence on C St., as the case is judged on its merits...