Word: scapegoat
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Their best showing was on the question of whether or not to condemn the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a traditional scapegoat of the NSA. A conservative resolution that advocated reform rather than abolition of the committee failed by only 236 to 216, although the eventually successful resolution to abolish the committee passed with a more clear-cut margin...
...dreary trial of Adolf Eichmann droned on (see THE WORLD), his son, Nicolas Eichmann, 25, remained dutiful and defiant in an interview in Parade. Believing his lieutenant colonel father a scapegoat, the 25-year-old electrician nonetheless said: "I expect the judges to sentence him to death." Claiming that until last year he believed the ex-Gestapo officer to be his uncle, Nicolas insisted that "there were not so many Jews killed as has been charged. Besides, I have heard that these executions were ordered by top Jews themselves, because they believe Jews should be martyrs." As for himself-after...
...Scapegoat. The Coyne affair showered political sparks all over Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Liberal Opposition Leader Lester Pearson called for an emergency debate in the House of Commons. Hitherto opposed to Coyne's high interest rates and his stubborn insistence that Canadians are living beyond their means, Pearson suddenly came to the governor's defense. He challenged Finance Minister Donald Fleming to prove that Coyne had blocked a single government program. "We will not support the government in any attempt to use the governor as a scapegoat for their own faults," he cried...
American newsmen, "in the rush to select a scapegoat" for the abortive Cuban-invasion attempt, need look no farther than their own typewriters. If the CIA was uninformed as to the real conditions in Cuba, especially concerning the morale of the masses and the probability of wholesale defections from Castro's militia, then the American newspaper readers were doubly...
...their embarrassment over the mutiny, some Frenchmen looked hard for some scapegoat who was not French. Much of the French press, egged on by some French officials, tried at length to implicate the U.S., zeroing in on that favorite target of recent weeks, the Central Intelligence Agency...