Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the end of this romance, the game went sour. We lost in overtime, 4-3, and both you and I parted without blame but in frustration...
What happened to the "spirit of Jerusalem"? Though U.S. Special Envoy Alfred ("Roy") Atherton resumed his shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Cairo last week, the peace process is essentially stalled. Both sides have made mistakes, but most dispassionate observers place the larger share of the blame on Israel and its doctrinaire Premier. Few of his countrymen would fault Begin for his aims or his principles, but a growing number disapprove of his tactics as a peacemaker, as TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff reported last week...
...Indeed, court-appointed tape experts detected at least five, and probably nine, starts and stops in the erasure. Haldeman claims he later was "confused" when Nixon referred to the gap as "Rose's 18 minutes"-but that could easily have been the President's way of shifting blame in Haldeman's mind to Rose Mary Woods, who claimed to have accidentally erased at most five minutes of this tape...
...doing all that well?" The mood became even chillier when discussion turned to Carter's energy program. "It was about as intense and hostile as anything I have ever observed," said one participant. Charles Schultze, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, put the blame for the delays in passing the energy bill "at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue" - meaning the Senate. Protested one business leader: "The problem is right here...
...treaties are torpedoed, says Panamanian Economist Guillermo Chapman, unemployment could reach 30% and "growth" could shrivel to minus 3% yearly. It is only fair to add that if the treaties are ratified and the economy fails to recover, the Panamanians will have no one to blame but themselves...