Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events after the police "bust" point to the same conclusion. The emotions excited by the brutality must have polarized opinion. There would be a tendency to put unjust blame upon those who called for police intervention rather than those--chiefly from SDS--whose deliberate efforts to provoke disruptive turbulence made it almost inevitable that police action would be required. Despite these complex cross-currents, the extent and persistence of the ultimate reaction against the University Administration is adequately explained only by the presence of strong but latent dissatisfaction quickened by the violence of events...
...surveys fuel the rhetoric from the right. Eighty-one percent of the public believe that law enforcement has broken down. Even more believe that a "strong" President can do something about it. By large margins, the public wants looters gunned down on the streets. By varying majorities, people blame Negroes, the Mafia, Communists, rebellious youth, the courts...
...Communist-lining Mexican Liberation Front, was presumed to be lending a hand somewhere, and the cops spotted half a dozen Black Panthers on their way ' home from training in Cuba and quickly shipped them on to the U.S. But even the Mexican government ceased last week to blame "outside agitators," as it had in the riots' first days. Instead, a commission appointed to study "the problems of education and youth in the country" began looking into the students' grievances...
...charge, contained in the FBI's annual report for the fiscal year 1968, said that SDS was largely to blame for campus unrest. It termed SDS "a forerunner of the nihilist movement...
...EXPLAINING these failures, Draper's more theoretical analysis probably comes closer to their cause. The U.S., he reiterates, has clearly misconceived the nature of the struggle, and this country's stake in it. Draper places much of the blame on the remnants of the domino theory which, while officially out of favor, still works powerfully on the minds of voters and politicians...