Word: slanderous
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...claim by any group of self-appointed vigilantes to the right to pillory those whom they choose to designate as "war criminals." We assert our determination to protect academic freedom, and most specifically, Professor Huntington's or any other teacher's right to teach without disruption, intimidation or slander. We, the undersigned members of the Government Department, invite all our colleagues and students to condemn a campaign whose success would destroy the very foundation of a free University...
...cruel but logical culmination of a three-year effort by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, to fabricate a case against him based on Article 70 of the Russian criminal code. That article makes it a crime, punishable by seven years' imprisonment, for a writer deliberately to "disseminate slander" about the Soviet system in Russia or abroad. In order to build a case that could appear plausible in court, the KGB has planted Solzhenitsyn's forbidden manuscripts, together with spurious "authorizations," on unsuspecting Western publishers. Many Sovietologists believe that the key figure in this elaborate plot...
...order; the Democrats have voted for Nixon's anticrime legislation. What about national unity, he asked. What about racial tension, the environment, economic problems? "There are those who seek to turn our common distress to partisan advantages, not by offering better solutions but with empty threat and malicious slander...
...scheduled to return home. Huessy was arrested in East Berlin. Eight months later, he was charged on three counts: espionage, trying to help East Germans escape, and provocative criticism of the state. Acquitted on the two more serious charges, he was convicted on the state criticism charge. His alleged slander was that the Communist regime would collapse if Moscow decided to pull its 20 divisions out of East Germany...
...National YAF board and Arizona chairman, a man with a brief, tight-lipped smile that never quite conceals the suspicious glances he shoots around him, delivered the introduction for the former presidential candidate with complete earnestness: "... He was only defeated by the vulgar, vile, and, yes, effeminate weapons of slander and semantical distortion...