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...onto me." He insists that he has been caught in a dispute betwen two CIA factions vying for influence in Iran. One faction, he says, botched the diplomatic initiative by trying to make its own deal in Tehran, and is now trying to cover its tracks by launching a smear campaign against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Murky World of Weapons Dealers | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...trifling charge in a state where beef is a leading farm product. During the three weeks that the ad aired, Abdnor made up about ten points in the polls. Then Daschle decided to attack the attack with an ad showing a bunch of cigar-smoking pols discussing ways to smear Daschle. "We'll distort the farm thing, confuse 'em with Fonda, all the usual liberal stuff," said one. When Abdnor's commercials became an issue, they lost their effectiveness. As California Campaign Consultant Clinton Reilly observes, "When voters feel it's a cheap shot, they turn against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Notebook of Tall Winners, Big Losers, Frogs and a Bird | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Previous recipients of the prize, which is given each year for medical research and public service, include the physicians who invented the pap smear test for cancer, scientists who developed the cure for syphilis and others who originated the polio vaccine...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: AIDS Researcher Wins Award | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

...suddenly, as if manna from heaven, the solution to these problems stared me right in the face from the bottom of the styrofoam quarter-pounder with cheese package. Two pickles lay dead in a smear of ketchup and mustard, offering up their lives to improve the rest of the world...

Author: By Bruce M. Kluckhohn, | Title: Soured World View | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

...Core Curriculum and Science Center officials, clearly called for some kind of College punishment. But these freshmen didn't get a warning. They didn't get academic or disciplinary probation. They didn't get kicked out for one semester. They got a year--a permanent and possibly devastating smear on their records--and absolutely no chance to appeal to another body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Last Straw | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

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