Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germans blame the Starfighter crashes, in which 37 pilots have perished, on faulty maintenance and the fact that most of the pilots are inexperienced. To overcome the problems, the Bonn Defense Ministry is now farming out maintenance on the 1,450 m.p.h. planes to such skilled German firms as Messerschmitt, is sending pilots to the U.S. for training. Just in case, it has decided to install better ejection seats so that fewer lives will be lost in the falling Starfighters...
...days as presidential press aide, he thought it unfair to blame the Administration for digging a credibility gap, and now that he is publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday, Bill Moyers, 32, thinks the same thing. The nation's newspapers, he told the Illinois Bankers Association, share equal blame for any gap because of all the conflicting interpretations and plain bad reporting. Said Bill: "I learned at the White House that what's happening often depends upon who is looking, and that of all the great myths of American journalism, objectivity is the greatest...
...What would be nice," intones Rex, in the film's final scene, "is if the bloody script turned out the way we wrote it." As the man in charge of both the typewriter and the camera, Mankiewicz has no one to blame but himself that it did not quite turn out the way he wrote...
...past experience shows, Constantine is no champion of the democratic process. In fact, he was largely to blame for the military takeover. During the two years before the coup, he stubbornly refused to allow elections in Greece. He cooperated with the right-wing in setting up a series of puppet governments. When the constitution prevented him from postponing elections any longer, he appointed the rightist minority as the caretaker government to run the elections. During its previous tenure in government in 1961, this rightist party had flagrantly rigged the elections. Despite attempts at another manipulation this year, all indications were...
...real blame for the sorry impasse lies with House Republicans, who under the shibboleth of state control have put forth a plan that is unwise and inequitable. It would result in poorer states getting a good deal less money than they now receive; Negroes and poor students would be the casualties in the Republican plan...