Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Restic certainly did not deserve all the blame for the opening game fiasco, however. Implementing a new system is difficult, and making the transition from the Yovicsin system to the Restic system is a little like launching into Paradise Lost after priming on Classic Comics. Restic's problems were further aggravated by slow-witted quarterbacks, slow-footed defensive backs and receivers who clutched inside the twenty yard line...
...chairman of the Philadelphia 1976 Bicentennial Corporation, charged that "nervous Nellies and ashamed Americans have frightened some of our most powerful Government leaders into believing that we should not invite the world to visit us in 1976." If that is true, the City of Brotherly Love is partly to blame. Black leaders demanded an equal voice in the planning, and lower-middle-class whites staged unpleasant demonstrations, protesting against the possible influx of black laborers and "foreigners...
...Knesset, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir placed the blame on Lebanon, which she accused of "openly enabling the centers of the terrorist organizations to reside in their midst." Lebanon-recalling that Israel had attacked Beirut airport in 1968 and destroyed civilian planes in retaliation for a fedayeen assault on an El Al plane-braced itself for Jerusalem's revenge. Its 18,000-man army was alerted, and the airport put under tight guard; antiaircraft guns could be seen swiveling beside the runways...
...tried to do so, a political crisis has resulted. Lebanon is the handiest target for Israel, but the P.F.L.P. also has headquarters in Paris, Rome and Pankow, East Germany. Still, Lebanon's jitters could be premature. At week's end Israeli embassies were issuing statements assigning equal blame to Egypt, which "for years has given its blessings to the indiscriminate killings by the terrorist groups as an instrument of its own policies against Israel...
...documentary assigns no blame for the slaying, although it suggests that the Black Muslims, furious over Malcolm's turn against them and threatened by it, were somehow responsible. But at the time most blacks were reluctant to blame the Muslims. James Farmer talks angrily about Malcolm's approaching the State Department with some sort of special information-the implication being that Malcolm was killed because he knew too much, though by whom or about what is never stated...