Word: blame
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...parties." The article "occasionally takes note of Nasser's calculating politics," says Peretz, but "settles the burden of tragic events squarely on Israel." All of this fits what Peretz says has become the New Left's Middle East dogma: that "Israel and Israel alone must bear the blame for the past and the responsibility for the future. Not, it should be clear, only for the plight of the Arab refugees, but for the behavior of the Arab regimes as well, and even (how powerful little Israel must have become!) for the policy of the Soviet Union, its sycophants...
...professor of Economics at M.I.T., said last night that although De Gaulle's chief advisor was "an idiot," his programs were "not without merit." He also wrote in a Washington Post article that the British devaluation should have come three years earlier, when the Laborites "could have thrown the blame on the Tories...
...blame for this unhappy situation lies with misguided public officials. If some kind of pressure cannot be brought to bear on the City Manager and the other officials who are responsible for the problem, the Avatar may soon be extinct. M. Pope Barrow...
Alarmed by this development, Party Boss Willy Brandt, the coalition's Foreign Minister, called the emergency conference to enable the unions and local politicians to let off steam. Both groups are particularly furious at Herbert Wehner, the terrible-tempered party strategist of the coalition. They blame him for coming all too speedily to the troubled Christian Democrats' rescue by agreeing to a coalition, thus depriving the Socialists of a chance to take over completely in the next election...
Their coaches blame this year's scores on the Ivy League's quarterbacks-particularly on their passing skills. Yale's Brian Dowling has 31 completions in 79 attempts for seven touchdowns in five games; Harvard's Ric Zimmerman already has eleven TD passes to his credit compared with seven all last year. Then there is a general inconsistency to contend with. Says Princeton's Coach Dick Colman: "With no spring practice and other things on their minds, our players don't have time to be letter-perfect. On any given day, anything can happen...