Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy of openness," pledged to stamp out corruption, release political prisoners and welcome exiles home. But the junta had too narrow a power base to tolerate such liberal measures. Last Dec. 3, when the Israelis shelled and bombed Iraqi forces in Jordan, the Al-Bakr regime was quick to blame its growing internal troubles on Israeli spies...
...Before I could talk," she says, "I had a private name for myself. And that was part of my magic kingdom." The name was Mildred, a stand-in Doppelganger who took the blame when things went sour. "Sometimes, the kingdom would become very, very strong and I had to go away?it was a lot like I Never Promised You a Rose Garden...
...Nader Report suggests that greatest blame for the F.T.C.'s inactivity must lie with Chairman Dixon. According to their findings, authority in the Commission is extremely centralized: Dixon is responsible for most decisions on what complaints to consider, what enforcement tactics to use, what information to withhold from the public. Appointed in 1960 by Kennedy as a Southern political debt, Dixon has driven, says the report, most Republicans out of high-level positions, and has staffed the agency with cronies, political appointees, and Southerners who share little of the interest of some low-grade attorneys in vigorous industry regulation. Dixon...
Winslow R. Briggs '50, chairman of the Biology Department's Committee on Undergraduate Students and Studies, said yesterday, "I don't blame the students at all. I feel they've been let down...
...actual control of many plants, "failed to take the next logical step: to run the economy by themselves as free and equal partners." The reason: they were unprepared for the responsibility, "overwhelmed by the unexpected vistas that had suddenly opened up before them." Beyond that, the Cohn-Bendits blame the established left: the Communist Party, which they scornfully dismiss as "a mere appendage of the Soviet bureaucracy," and the left-wing Confédération Générale du Travail. Both, they charge, failed to exploit existing power vacuums. "The party of order and political wisdom...