Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bast places much of the blame on the deluges of Hurricane Agnes: "Eggs that were deposited over the last several years hatched in the high water and high tides." During July, New York state officials began an intensive spraying campaign against both larvae and adult mosquitoes-which can spread encephalitis and other diseases-but it is too late to eliminate the insect hordes. Says Massachusetts Agriculture Official Charles Cannon: "We used to control mosquitoes with massive, year-round larvacide projects. In the summer we sprayed, and in the winter we put down a powder pesticide on ice and snow, which...
...Pulitzer Prize in 1964 while covering Viet Nam for A.P., disagrees. He charges that he and others have been given "potentially lethal advice" by South Vietnamese officers in the form of bad directions that would take newsmen into areas of intense enemy fire. While correspondents simply blame poor intelligence, Browne insists it is done deliberately, and quotes a South Vietnamese captain as having told him: "We know the foreign press is against us. The press is the agent of the Viet Cong, so don't be surprised at what happens to you newsmen here." A few days later, South...
...night five weeks later: winning the California credentials challenge, defeating amendments to the party platform that could have proved politically embarrassing, polishing his acceptance summons to "Come Home, America." Campaign Manager Gary Hart admits: "There were no formal staff meetings, no requests to check people out. I take the blame for not setting up a committee on selection. I should have thought of that." McGovern's key staff and advisers met for four hours, recalls Gary Hart, to "consider every legitimate name and pare down to a list of no more than six." At first there were about...
Prejudiced Witnesses. Interestingly, McCarthy reports that before any of the My Lai proceedings began, a group of young Army lawyers suggested that all concerned-from generals down to sergeants-be tried en masse, on the Nuremberg model. Such a proceeding, she says, could have "apportioned blame in large, small and medium slices according to a single measure." Instead, the combination of separate trials and administrative decisions inevitably produced "a haphazard result" and left "a sense of un fairness." Even after Medina's trial, "the feeling remained that the full story of My Lai 4 was still to be told...
Eulogists promised "the strongest and most cruel" retaliation for Kanafani's assassination. Expectedly, they put the blame on Israel, where some Knesset members had called for individual reprisals for the Lod attack; indeed some Israeli politicians had singled out Kanafani by name. One day after his funeral a bomb exploded in a lavatory at Tel Aviv's busy central bus terminal. There were no deaths but eleven people were injured; Israeli police arrested several Arabs as suspects and repulsed an angry crowd that tried to manhandle them...