Word: scapegoat
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...Pakistan consider Bhutto a potential Nasser-a populist demagogue who will rule by rhetoric and charisma. "We have to pick up the pieces, the very small pieces," Bhutto said last week, clearly welcoming the opportunity to do so. If he cannot, he too might well end up a scapegoat for the failures of Yahya and the army in politics and on the battlefield. As a first step, Bhutto must convince his countrymen that any real chance of salvaging Mohammed Ali Jinnah's dream of a united Pakistan is about as realistic as the CRUSH INDIA stickers that can still...
...heroin brought to the U.S. is purified from raw opium in clandestine laboratories around Marseille. John Cusack, the chief American narcotics agent in Europe, had criticized the French for protecting hoodlums running the drug traffic in France. The French stiffly replied that the U.S. is looking for a scapegoat on which to blame its narcotics problems; they take credit for the fact that Cusack was recalled last week. Despite a Franco-American treaty on narcotics law enforcement, French officials have so far refused to extradite Fournier. They also appeared unwilling to prosecute him in France on the basis...
...game of guessing who's really who in Proust gets another whirl from Novelist Elizabeth Bowen. She takes the character of Bergotte, Proust's fictitious writer of fiction, and after wondering briefly whether the original might have been Anatole France, finally decides Bergotte is really a "standin, scapegoat, whipping-boy for" Proust-particularly as a purple stylist and a snob...
...parts of this memoir that deal with My Lai are mainly taken verbatim from Lieut. Calley's trial testimony. Readers who like to see Calley as scapegoat and martyr can read again his claim that the star prosecution witnesses were lying, and reflect on the lieutenant's reassertion that at My Lai he was acting not as a responsible individual but as the blind agent of the American people. What makes the book interesting are Calley's recollections of the months before and after...
...does not consider poverty a permanent fixture of society. It will last, he believes, only until alternatives are found. What are those alternatives? Gans suggests that social workers could counsel the rich; policemen could concentrate on traffic and organized crime; entertainers, hippies and adolescents could be given a bigger scapegoat role than they already have. But most solutions-like paying menial workers higher wages -would cause the affluent both fiscal and psychological pain. As a result, Gans concludes, poverty may disappear only "when the powerless can obtain enough power to change society...