Word: baseless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime moved at the same time to bring to heel the 300-member foreign press corps, much of which it has tried to use for propaganda purposes. Some 2,000 Khomeini supporters marched through the streets of Tehran denouncing "Zionist-and imperialist-affiliated journalists" for sending "false and baseless" reports to the West. Following that, the government expelled TIME'S correspondents in Iran, Bruce van Voorst, 47, and Roland Flamini, 45. Abol Ghassam Sadegh, director general for the foreign press in the Ministry of National Guidance, denounced TIME for "one-sided and biased" coverage. Said he: "Since the hostage...
...other religions, repressive toward women and incompatible with progress. Salem Azzam, Saudi secretary-general of the Islamic Council of Europe, feels that the present resurgence is considered "retrograde and reactionary" because Westerners confuse what is happening in Islam with a revival of Christian fundamentalism. "Not only is this a baseless and arrogant assumption," says Azzam, but it is tantamount to "a return to colonialism?indirect but of a more profound type." Defenders of the faith further argue that Islam is not monolithic, that it is compatible with various social and economic systems, and that far from being a return...
...finger at the Soviet Union for the Scharansky trial, that very week he said not a word when Joan Little was denied an attorney in Raleigh, North Carolina." Your reporter said that I could not be reached for comment. I would, however, like to comment on Mr. Kunstler's baseless charges...
Ever since Shcharansky's arrest 16 months ago on what Western experts regard as baseless spy charges, the U.S. has made it clear that his continued imprisonment constituted a blatant violation of the human rights that the Carter foreign policy seeks to protect. Not only has Vance urged Moscow not to press the charges, but Carter took the unusual step of publicly denying that Shcharansky had ever been a CIA employee. He thus committed his personal prestige to a declaration that the Soviets now propose to challenge in a Moscow court...
...Brooklyn have helped perpetuate these stereotypes--everyone from Woody Allen to Mel Brooks to Gabe Kaplan to Alan King is guilty. But the myth that Brooklyn is a teeming mass of poverty, illiteracy, downright stupidity and silly accents whose only redeeming quality is its proximity to Manhattan is totally baseless...