Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, according to police, under the cover title of the Jamaica Rifle and Pistol Club, RAM members were drawing up a plot to assassinate N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. and at least three other moderate Negro leaders. The apparent idea was to blame the killings on whites and inspire nationwide racial uprisings. The only hitch in RAM's secret plans was that New York City police had been chronicling its activities for two years and had apparently infiltrated a Negro rookie cop into the group. Throughout the U.S., according...
...make peace. It had lost its armies, but was desperately determined not to lose its face. Instead, it indulged in an orgy of breast-beating, rationalizing, complaining and threatening that seemed intended to prove both that the Arabs had won the war and that someone else was to blame because they had lost it. "Defeat exists only for those who admit it," said Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Gumhu-ria. "We do not admit...
...French blame their woes on declining foreign sales, especially to deflated West Germany, which in the past has absorbed up to 23% of France's exports, but in the first quarter of 1967 dropped to about 21%. Overall, between 1962 and 1966 France's exports were up 59%, while imports rose 72%. De Gaulle's Common Market deficit alone was $245 million...
...immediate reaction of the Roxbury community was to blame the rioting on the brutality of the police in the face of the large crowd at Grove Hall. Hundreds of people, attracted by the arriving squad cars, had gathered in front of the welfare office before the police began to move. According to men who were outside, the crowd was agitated but peaceful until a mother shouted out the window about the beatings inside. Pinney and John M. Mendeloff '68, who was also inside, reported vicious beatings as the police attempted to clear the building. "The cops suddenly came out wanting...
...sweeping changes in the nation's auto insurance system are likely to grow. One proposal, understandably opposed by trial lawyers, is to do away with the "fault principle" in most auto accidents-which means that the insurer would pay off its own policyholder, regardless of who was to blame. Advocates of this plan contend that it would cut costs by ending interminable haggling over claims. At the same time, it would reduce the backlog of cases which is clogging the nation's court calendars...