Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When blame is apportioned . . Who gets the rest? Just about everybody" [Dec. 10]. You can say that again, only please add: including the press. Look at TIME during the past twelve months. How many pages about the impending energy crisis, how many about Watergate? While the house was on fire, you kept lamenting somebody's stealing the petty cash...
...meantime, last week the commando groups were engaged in a mission that gave them at least a momentary sense of unity: they sent four representatives, hand-picked by Arafat, to Kuwait to interrogate the terrorists who had been responsible for the Rome massacre. The Kuwaitis, anxious to avoid the blame for bringing the terrorists to trial, have said that they will turn them over to the Palestinian commando movement as a whole for "justice...
Increasingly, Britons began to question whether there really was a severe crisis-or if Heath might be playing some kind of brinkmanship with recalcitrant unions. In his budget message, Barber followed Heath's lead and heaped blame for most of the country's woes on the miners who are demanding a 33% increase in minimum wages. Astonishingly, he barely mentioned any of Britain's other problems or ways to deal with them, like the country's monumental trade deficit or its out-of-control inflation rate (10% this year...
...Public Blame. Meanwhile, secret talks were under way last week between the unions and Employment Secretary William Whitelaw, the man who worked out a coalition of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Said one official: "Willie has been wheeling them in and out just as he did up in Ulster." Though the unions were publicly getting the brunt of the blame, the government was secretly asking other workers to allow the miners, railmen and power engineers to go to the head of the line for wage increases. If they still refuse to go back to work, the three-day week...
...Europe, coupled with the comparative decline of the U.S., had altered the traditional big-brother role of the U.S., and that "some Europeans have come to believe that their identity should be measured by [their] distance from the U.S." In part, he admitted, the U.S. had been to blame for not consulting more with its allies; but the Europeans were also to blame and at times had sought to exclude the U.S. from their decision-making process. "We do believe," he said, "that as an old ally the U.S. should be given an opportunity to express its concerns before final...