Word: smears
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...also overcame a pre-election smear campaign in some Swiss newspapers against her husband Hans, an attorney. According to those reports, he was suspended from practicing in court for six months in 1972 following allegations, which he has denied, that he had spanked some of his secretaries with a bamboo stick. Elisabeth Kopp asked that her qualifications be considered, not her husband's. Her election, she said last week, was "a success for all the women of Switzerland...
...defeats suffered by North Viet Nam during the Tet offensive of early 1968, Westmoreland claims, vindicate his command's method of reporting enemy strength. In an internal investigation six months later, conducted after TV Guide had published a cover story on the show titled "Anatomy of a Smear," a CBS official concluded that the word "conspiracy" was not justified and that certain of the network's reporting guidelines had been violated; but both he and CBS insisted that the basic conclusions of the broadcast were correct...
...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...