Word: faults
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...Saudis. ^ And now, most embarrassing of all, Iraq's Scud missiles are falling apart before they even reach their targets. More than 70 Scuds have been launched so far, and lately they're breaking up while heading toward their destinations. U.S. military men say sloppy Iraqi workmanship is at fault. The basic Soviet- built Scud-B has a 180-mile range, not enough to hit Israel or Saudi cities from Iraq. So the Iraqis have welded on liquid-fuel boosters to produce the Al Abbas (range: 540 miles) and the Al Hussein (390). But the welds have been so hastily...
...wish to fault the planning committee for its shortcomings in this area, but the effort to address the issues of racism and ethnocentrism and their prevalence today should not be criticized. If anything, let's have those with public relations acumen work toward informing more people about AWARE Week. We need an atmosphere in which people can recognize that different cultures are equally valid without being branded as quixotic fools who are wasting their time...
...weak Harvard showing was no fault of Crimson Captain Ted Donato...
...until then, these same activists--in a clear case of moral hypocrisy--will continue to "support" the American "heroes," even if they are fighting what is alleged to be an immoral (and not merely unwise) war. In the eyes of these anti-war activists, it's not the soldiers' fault...
That obfuscation was matched in Moscow, where no one wanted to take responsibility. Responding to questions from Supreme Soviet Deputies, Gorbachev implied that the killings in Vilnius were the Lithuanians' own fault. He accused them of violating the Soviet constitution, trampling the human rights of the republic's Russian and Polish minorities and splitting the society. Negotiations with Lithuania were hardly possible, he said, "when the republic is led by such people" as Landsbergis...