Word: smeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent Sunday morning the 17-man Hollywood squad is competing against a team composed of non-Hollywood types. They assemble on the boulder-strewn, ravine-lined battlefield. Most smear camouflage makeup on their faces. The wiry, cocksure Fields does not: "I want them to see who kills them." He can taste it. "I'm ready," he deadpans. "I strangled my neighbor's dog this morning. He was only a mutt." A referee in the center of the field distributes to everyone a pistol, holster, carbon-dioxide cartridges, goggles and brightly colored "elimination" vests for those who are shot...
...full accounting of death squad activity is impossible, but patterns can be discerned. While President Reagan has suggested that the left is sponsoring squads to smear the right, both the U.S. embassy and Tutela Legal put civilian deaths attributable to the guerrillas at a fraction of those assigned to right-wing packs. Nonetheless, the rebels frequently execute alleged army collaborators, including villagers who gave either information or food to passing patrols. A hit team from a major guerrilla group, the Popular Liberation Front (FPL), killed U.S. Navy Lieut. Albert Schaufelberger last May, while a splinter faction called the Revolutionary Workers...
Kowet conducted his interview in connection with a 1982 TV Guide piece that labeled the CBS documentary "a smear." After an internal investigation the network concluded that the substance of the program was accurate but that some of the magazine's criticisms about the methods used in producing it were valid. Kowet subsequently seemed to shift from being a reporter to acting as an advocate for Westmoreland. This month he published a scathing book about the program, A Matter of Honor, portions of which are poorly documented at best...
...resumed diplomatic relations with France and even took a money-raising trip to Wall Street in 1982, proclaiming his nation's "fabulous economic potential." At the same time, for obvious reasons, he also relaxed his repressive policies and attributed reports of human rights abuses to "smear campaigns...
Sonny Barger, 45, the famed former national president of the Hell's Angels, dismisses the FBI's charge that his club has become a wheeling and dealing version of the Mafia. "The Government is waging a smear campaign against us," says the biker turned bourgeois. "It is a Hollywood image and a Government image, but it is not the truth." Barger insists the gang cannot control what each member does. "A lot of Hell's Angels have gone to prison for individual things," he says, "just like policemen...