Word: scapegoat
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...savagely attacked for his brief acceptance of the 1958 Nobel Prize, Olga tried to persuade the Soviet authorities to behave with more intelligence. The authorities retorted that she should have used her influence to make Pasternak follow the official line in Doctor Zhivago. Fearing that Olga might be made scapegoat for his doctrinal errors, Pasternak wrote friends in Paris: "If, God forbid, they should arrest Olga, I will send you a telegram saying someone has caught scarlet fever. In that event all tocsins should be made to ring, just as would have been done in my case, for an attack...
...coast during the campaign's final week while Republican State Chairman Ray Bliss bombarded voters with radio, TV and newspaper ads-and most important of all. brought in Ike. Last week, surveying the wreckage, Di Salle gloomily declared: "They're going to have to find a scapegoat, and it might as well be me." His foes among the Democratic county chairmen couldn't agree more...
...almost effusive wire was less a tribute to Kennedy than a hint that Khrushchev was willing to bury his recent belligerence along with his scapegoat, Eisenhower. Izvestia called the election results a "terrible defeat" for the Eisenhower-Nixon policies of "worsening international tensions." A sharp dissenter in the Communist world: Red China, where the New China News Agency warned that while both candidates served "U.S. ruling circles," Kennedy would "greatly increase military spending and extend war preparations...
...China's Chou En-lai and Indonesia's President Sukarno basked in each other's compliments at the 1955 Bandung Conference, found common cause in anticolonialism. But last year, looking for a scapegoat for his crumbling economy, Sukarno cast his restless eye on the Chinese who run the stores and make the most money in nearly every village and town in Indonesia. He decided to transfer this lucrative business to deserving Indonesians, lightly overlooked the fact that few Indonesians have the know-how or energy to replace the industrious Chinese. He offered the Chinese a harsh alternative...
...national elections, which even the Socialists concede will be won by Kishi's party, the Liberal Democrats. The likely new Premier: Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda, 61, who was one of the very few to support Kishi to the end. A Liberal Democratic spokesman said, "Kishi has become a scapegoat. He has taken on his own shoulders the hate against conservatives, the hate against America, the hate against everything." Then with cheerful and almost mindless optimism, he added: "When Kishi leaves, our party will have a new leader, and with that a lot of the hate will go away...