Word: scapegoat
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...past it has been common for deposed Latin American leaders to blame the CIA for their fall from power. It has been equally common for the U.S. government to deny the charges and hint that the Latin Americans are always seeking a scapegoat to cover their own political ineptness. With the publication of CIA Diary it will be all but impossible to believe future American denials of CIA involvement in Latin American affairs. Agee has shown that involvement to be too pervasive and long-standing to ever be denied again...
...Ford child who most shuns life in official Washington is Steve, 19, who is currently off in Montana's Scapegoat Mountains, studying grizzly bears with John Craighead, professor of forestry and zoology at the University of Montana. So remote is the group's location that supplies-and even letters from the White House-can only be carried in by mule and packhorse every ten days. The shyest of the four children, Steve may also be the most physically daring. Taking time off after high school to work at a ranch, he has spent recent months roping, riding, broncobusting...
...demonstrations, despite the ban on public gatherings of more than four persons, seemed an abrupt contradiction of the warm and friendly remarks she directed toward America a week ago when she praised "great fighters like Jefferson and Lincoln." She may now feel she needs the CIA as a scapegoat for India's current crisis...
...city employees, including police and firemen at a time when crime and arson are ominously rising. With inflammatory rhetoric that hardly squares with his image as a mild-mannered bookkeeper intent on keeping the peace in New York, Beame lashed out in his budget message at his chosen scapegoat: the city bankers, no longer willing to fund the city's debt, whom he accused of "poisoning our wells," of starting a "whispering campaign to denigrate our fiscal integrity...
...consulting anybody." Many of Jackson's setbacks can be attributed to inexperience, and there are signs that he is learning on the job. He mediated adroitly between blacks and whites to win acceptance of an integrated housing project near downtown Atlanta. "He knew how to make himself a scapegoat for everybody," says Carl Basnett, an attorney who participated in the negotiations...