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Robert Belleh, chairman of Berkeley's sociology department, labeled the charges "nothing but a smear," adding that casting an academic department as terrorist without specifically naming anyone is "sounding off with nonsense...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Campus Terrorism | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

...still dark when the retinue sets off for a day's campaigning. The heat, brilliant and soaking, comes soon after first light. On the edge of a town, the caravan shudders to a stop. The candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Caught in the Crossfire | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Marcoses mounted a smear campaign against the Manotoc family in the government-controlled press. Dailies ran a story in which Mrs. Marcos accused Manotoc of inveigling Imee into marriage and describing her daughter as having "the mind of a 40-year-old but the heart of a ten-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Family Feud | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...featuring McCarthy. Dredging up every sort of reporting on the Senator, showing the media's role change from Joseph McCarthy's mouthpiece to that of a dramatic image-maker which cast McCarthy as a villainous "bully" with "heavy dark brows" or as a heroic cow-boy who fought "smear gangs" and "parlor pinks," the book vividly illustrates McCarthy's ride on the tracks of America's media, lying and venomously spewing forth accusations...

Author: By Robert M. Mccord, | Title: The Press and Joe | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...Angel Live is the title of this doomed show. Jaclyn Smith is pursuing a villain who has robbed a client of $200,000, but when she tries to question him, he shoots her. Right in the head. Screams. A smear of blood beside the right ear. So they rush her to the hospital, and there, as one of the studio memos puts it, "the other Angels and Bosley reminist [sic] about their experiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Farewell to a Phenomenon | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

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