Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitably, though, the Vietnamese blame much of the debacle on the U.S., which gradually took command of the whole war effort and imposed its own training methods, tactics and supplies on South Viet Nam. The Vietnamese became so dependent on the U.S. that when President Nixon threatened a cutoff in U.S. aid if Thieu did not sign the Paris peace accords, Thieu could only give in. Ambassador Bui Diem provides a pathetic vignette of Thieu at San Clemente, where he sought assurance of U.S. help if Hanoi violated the accords. "You can count on us," Nixon said. Thieu...
...Administration imposed a virtual gag on Government Iran specialists in an effort to prevent them from talking to the press. In fact, there have been so many mistakes in U.S. policy that almost anyone involved in the subject in at least three previous Administrations probably deserves a bit of blame. The badly weakened CIA, which had only a handful of operatives in Tehran who spoke Persian, has once more been revealed as utterly inadequate. The U.S. embassy myopically refused to let members of the mission make friends with the opposition, lest this seem to undermine the Shah. Policymakers in Washington...
...Atlanta, Washington and San Francisco. The FBI estimates that more than 4,600 bank robberies took place nationwide in 1978, up from 3,988 in 1977. Says Boris Melnikoff, director of security for the First National Bank of Atlanta, which was knocked over eleven times last year: "We blame it on the economy. We have a product that is very marketable. The professional bandit needs more money to survive...
...Government shares some of the blame for delay. "Like the Vatican," says Hazard, "federal agencies have a certain timeless interest." A Wall Street Journal editorial charged that in the IBM case the Government spent 5½ years in preparation and took three more years to present its case at trial...
...decline, 28% since December 1976. Despite huge oil revenues, eight of the OPEC member nations ran deficits in the first half of 1978; as a group, they became the biggest international borrowers, with a total of $5.2 billion in loans and withdrawals. Surprisingly, many American businessmen do not blame OPEC for raising the price as much as it did. "If you take an 18-month time period," says Carlton Jones, manager of energy analysis at Pace Consultants & Engineers in Houston, "the increase is less than U.S. inflation and doesn't cover the dollar devaluation during that time period...