Word: blame
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...People are looking for someone to blame, and the oil companies are a convenient target," he says...
...over. At the specific request of the IRS, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski will apparently ask a federal grand jury to decide whether Nixon's tax advisers, Attorney Frank DeMarco and Accountant Arthur Blech, should be charged with fraud. DeMarco, at least, is not likely to accept the full blame under any such accusation. At the same time, IRS Commissioner Donald Alexander, by will ingly declaring that Nixon had not been accused of fraud himself but then issuing a series of "no comments" to questions of whether Nixon had been assessed a negligence penalty for his returns, left the implication...
...campaign to come, the opposition will no doubt blame the government for Australia's 14% inflation rate; it will almost certainly gain ground in rural areas where farmers are upset at Labor's abolition of longstanding tax concessions. But Whitlam can effectively argue that Labor's social program has been blocked by an obstreperous Sen ate, while in foreign affairs the country has gained a stronger and more independent voice. Whitlam, 58, is also a more popular and commanding figure than the untried Snedden, 47, a former Perth newsboy who took over as Liberal leader after...
Many other countries, however, have a much worse problem with alcohol than the U.S. France, for instance, has the highest rate of alcoholism in the world (an estimated 10% to 12% of the population, including some children), and the Soviet Union may not be far behind. Soviet newspapers now blame 60% of their country's murders, holdups and burglaries on that old demon vodka. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev gave tacit recognition to the problem when U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited him recently. Discussing with Kissinger plans for a U.S.-built soft-drink factory in the Soviet...
...other hand, there is an equally unmistakable caution, conservatism, and confusion surrounding the idea of impeachment. The day after Nixon's tax disclosure a local paper in the district conducted a random phone survey of residents' reactions. The majority of those contacted either didn't blame Nixon for his failure to pay taxes, or felt that as long as he pays what he owes, he shouldn't be punished any further. In either case, there was little sentiment for impeachment. As one person said, "I don't think we could get anybody any better--maybe we could get someone worse...