Word: untruths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needn't worry about anti-Semitism and greater-German nationalism, because they're dead. To many people, this statement is dogma. To others, it's pure untruth. Certainly the Germans have shown virtually no manifestations of a dormant Nazism in the past forty years; in fact, they have gone far to dispel Western suspicions...
...chastened by the events that are true but he's damned if he's going to run from allegations that are garbage," said Sachs. "Barney's been forthcoming about this publicly. He is equally certain that there has been a substantial amount of untruth peddled, or attempted to be peddled, in the public press...
...sheer enormity of the untruth, however, that is so stunning. Certainly there is nothing subtle about the Chinese leadership's tactics. Tell the lie again and again. Broadcast mug shots of wanted "hooligans." Lionize citizens who cooperate by ratting on alleged culprits. Parade arrested students before cameras, their heads shaved and bowed, their wrists cuffed, signs detailing their crimes strapped around their necks. Hour after hour, run their "confessions" of wrongdoing on national television. Construct a new reality, one that checks democratic aspirations by preying on fear and paranoia. The result? "A week ago we were free to say anything...
Along with his boss Andrei Gromyko, Dobrynin looked Kennedy in the eye and denied there were missiles in Cuba. Did he lie? Probably. But he was forgiven because his untruth was within the bounds of diplomatic duplicity. He negotiated enthusiastically for an arms summit with Lyndon Johnson. The night before announcement of the summit, Dobrynin rushed to tell the President that Soviet troops were moving into Czechoslovakia. End of summit. Another deception? Of course, but again he charmed his way back to credibility...
...part article on Micronesia published this week in The Crimson is a model of irresponsible journalism. It is filled with half truths and untruths, which could and should have been checked before publication. The United States did not, as the articles suggest, use "Micronesia" as a test site "for advanced nuclear weaponry." A portion of the northern Marshall Islands, which itself is only a small portion of Micronesia, was indeed used for some years, ending in 1954, for nuclear tests. By today's standards the tests were primitive, not advanced. The article next implies that such tests are going...