Word: doubletalk
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Finding them may not be easy. Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense, and General Earle G. Wheeler, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both hastily denied having ordered the falsifications. Henry Kissinger also asserted no knowledge of the Air Force's peculiar reporting procedures. After considerable doubletalk, the Pentagon finally issued a public statement saying only that the falsification processes were "authorized and directed from Washington...
...great hurry. But as in other industrial nations, the cost to Russia's ecology has been great. For years Russia maintained a news blackout about the relentless exploitation of its natural resources. When Western journalists tried to confirm infrequent reports of ecological disruption, they met only bureaucratic doubletalk about Soviet laws, decrees and decisions to safeguard nature...
...Nixon backer Mrs. Charles Ream of Millersport, Ohio: "I can't explain it. He tries, but he just doesn't have it. His personality leaves me cold." If the campaign turns out to focus on personality, McGovern's chances apparently would improve. "He doesn't doubletalk; he knows how to make himself a part of the people rather than just a politician," argues Billing Clerk Lynda Bialy, a young voter in Buffalo, N.Y. Surprisingly, only one out of seven who expect to vote for McGovern will do so on the basis of any specific issue, although...
...Politics, Ideology, that offers occasional translated reprints from the American press and articles on U.S. affairs by Soviet America watchers. The reprints are tendentiously edited to emphasize U.S. faults, and Soviet contributors faithfully hew the party line. Even so, USA contains more information, more sophisticated interpretation and less doctrinaire doubletalk than any other official Soviet publication. "Telling and hearing the truth, as we see it, about the U.S. will not harm our society," says Arbatov. Still, USA is considered a bit too candid for the masses: it is not sold on any newsstand in the U.S.S.R. Its circulation is limited...
...eyewitness accounts collected here also make shabby all official U.S. doubletalk intended to deny or obscure what has actually been inflicted on Lao tian civilians by American airpower, especially since 1968. Branfman ends his book by quoting without comment a May 1971 letter to Michigan Senator Robert Griffin from David M. Abshire, Assistant Secretary of State for Con gressional Relations: "The rules do not permit attacks on nonmilitary targets and place out-of-bounds all inhabited villages . . . We deeply regret the fate of all victims of the war, both those killed by North Vietnamese action and those whose lives have...