Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been better if Beame had made his turnabout earlier. In the time-honored fashion of New York politicians, he had put off dealing with the crisis in the vain hope that it would somehow go away. At first, he tried to accuse the banks, as if they were to blame for incurring the city's debt. When that failed, he made a loud plea for more state and federal aid, when those governments were also hard-pressed for funds. Then despite the fact that New Yorkers pay the highest per capita taxes of any city in the nation...
...hotel in the capital. He is drinking much less than the fifth a day he consumed at the height of the Watergate crisis. Associates suggest two reasons for Mitchell's relatively good spirits: 1) Despite Nixon's earlier efforts to get Mitchell to take full blame for Watergate, he has never turned against his former boss and remains on good terms with Nixon and Nixon's wealthy friends; 2) he is confident that the Supreme Court will not rule on his appeal of his conviction until early 1977 and that by then a re-elected President Ford...
...their fault, and the set is not to blame, either. Cool and Spanish. Zack Brown's set is an Escher like lizard of staircases and platforms: it seems much larger than it is, more stylish than Escher, and perfectly balanced. Director Richard Edelman uses waiters, bystanders and a flamenco guitarist to keep things moving on stage, and he does it well, but the odds are stacked as relentlessly as the bullfighting metaphors...
...foreign affairs officials known as the "40 Committee" and headed by Henry Kissinger. Presidents have almost always given their direct authorization for covert operations abroad (although their roles in the agency's various alleged schemes for assassinations are still far from clear), but they could always avoid personal blame if a secret operation was "blown" by disclosure. This insulating of the President is of course one of the factors that is now frustrating the Church committee's efforts to find out exactly who authorized what. The main purpose was to avoid international confrontations. When the U.S. efforts...
...close relationship can be more of a liability. Our friends are definitely worried and scared. If they have something sensitive, they're concerned that it might come out when they share it with us. As a result, they're holding back, and frankly, I don't blame them...