Word: blame
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Frank DeMarco and Accountant Arthur Blech, both of Los Angeles. Last week, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski directed his staff to investigate whether the two men had violated any laws. The White House statement disavowing any presidential responsibility for errors in the returns in effect pinned the blame for them on DeMarco and Blech. Further, presidential aides sought to give the impression that the two men had worked independently of Nixon and that he had merely glanced over his returns before signing them...
...commission laid complete blame for Israel's poor showing in the early days of the war on the military and exonerated Israel's political leadership-namely, Dayan and Mrs. Meir. Its harshest judgments were reserved for Lieut. General David Elazar, Israel's tough, professional Chief of Staff, and his top intelligence officers. It charged Elazar with "failure to make a real effort to reach his own assessment as a commander" and noted that "he even failed to tour the front lines during the tension in the last week before the war." Elazar's worst mistake...
...wash. Elazar-who promptly tendered his resignation along with Major General Eliahu Zeira, the Chief of Military Intelligence, three of Zeira's top assistants and the chief of the southern regional command-declared that he had not been given "a fair deal." How could the commission blame him for not calling up the reserves and not blame Dayan, who operated on the same information as he? "One can only conclude," Elazar went on, "that the commission did not apply the same yardstick...
Belfast businessmen demanded an immediate response from Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees. "You are to blame for all this!" yelled an embittered woman as Rees made his first official visit to Bel fast to inspect the damage. Most infuriated were hard-line Ulster Protestants, who feel that the new Labor Government is concentrating too much on a political solution and not enough on a military one. Shouted one irate Protestant as Rees clambered about the debris on Royal Avenue: "Root them out! That's what you must...
Similarly, Hoffa sweepingly condemns government transgressions of civil liberties, but seems reluctant to assign blame. He opposes wiretapping, but is unwilling to condemn the Nixon administration directly for asserting its unlimited authority to wiretap without court order: "I'm opposed to all wiretapping, I'm opposed to room bugging, I'm opposed to any kind of spy system against people in this country...