Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once Chou seemed almost embarrassed, hastily ordered a complete investigation, at week's end apologized profusely. "The scheme of imperialists to make use of this incident to spread slander and show discord between China and Nepal will never succeed," said he. Despite Chou's protestations, the incident proved once more that Red China has an astonishingly casual attitude toward the borders of its neighbors...
...Item: Despite U.S. denials and without producing evidence, Cuba repeatedly blames the U.S. for the March explosion of the ammunition ship La Coubre in Havana harbor, has repeated its accusation in Castro speeches and in pamphlets distributed by Cuban ambassadors throughout Latin America. The U.S. put up with such slander, but, said the State Department note in its key sentence, "this exercise of restraint has been in vain...
...seemed to be trying to taunt the U.S. into intervening-and most Cubans thought a J.S. attack to be a live possibility. Hotel telephone operators answered calls by saying, "Fatherland or Death! Number, please." For the second time in less than a week, the U.S. protested Castro's "slander'-specifically a propaganda pamphlet charging the U.S. with blowing up a munitions ship in Havana harbor last March. At week's end Castro seized the Hotel National (managed by a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways, Inc.) and the Havana Hilton, which Conrad Hilton operated for its owner...
...public declaration in Montevideo that property of U.S. citizens had not been confiscated but was fairly paid for, the Department of State said: "To our knowledge not a single American property owner has been reimbursed." Washington listed eight other instances of Cuba's "intense official campaign of slander" against the U.S., among them Economic Czar "Che" Guevara's statement that the U.S.'s $150 million-a-year sugar subsidy to Cuba was actually a "form of slavery." Cuba rejected the U.S. protest...
...smear and slander, vilify, attack, For of guts and spirit I sure have...